JRE

[Janne Jokitalo]

John Dangler wrote:

Hello again!

> Sorry, I did mean 1.5 .  But I don't see 1.5 in any of the responses you
> listed...

You probably haven't enabled multiverse component:

$ apt-cache policy sun-java5-bin
sun-java5-bin:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages

> So, why, if I have the java 5 jre and the java 5 plugin installed, does
> the java --version report 1.4.2 ?

When you type `java --version', the comp is executing actually:

$ which java
/usr/bin/java

$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2005-10-14 17:21 /usr/bin/java ->
/etc/alternatives/java

And now you get to alternatives, which you can set by ussuing:

$ sudo update-alternatives --all

...and choosing the correct answers from the lists that it gives you.
Somewhere in there you should see different java versions.


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Jaska