[RESOLVED]Re: JRE

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 16 13:52:11 UTC 2007


Conrad Knauer wrote:

> You know what's funny; I tried the update-alternatives and found two
> versions that I didn't want on my system (they were installed as
> dependencies as I was testing out programs), deleted those and now running
> java -version from anywhere just works! 8-)
> 
> <grin>  Doing tech support can help more than just other people it seems
> ;)

Exactly!  gij gets installed for a number of things if you don't explicitly
choose a java vm.  If you have a sun-java* package installed, gij &/or
kaffe don't usually get installed.
-- 
derek





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