java JRE upgrade 10 does not work

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:21:44 -0400
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
[snips]
> 
> > after the java install ( not forgetting  update-alternatives --config java
> > )
> 
> Not necessary - it's part of the install.

Really ? I didn't see it, and when I checked with update-alternatives
--config java I had to change the number... 
> 
> >  - but I guess the method you used is just as easy
> > with auto-replace in your editor of choice. Personally I only wanted the
> > runtime and plugin so I installed sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-plugin
> 
> That's not a complete runtime - you need sun-java?-jre.  The bin package is
> just the native code.  Damn, I forgot the plugin :-)

Umm...

$ apt-cache depends sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-bin
  Depends: sun-java6-jre
[snip]

 $ dpkg -l sun-java6-jre | grep ii
ii  sun-java6-jre  6-00-2         Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
(architecture independent files)

> 
> > Caveat: this is safe enough with java, but not advisable for other
> > packages that might do something unpleasant, like try to change your libc6
> > version etc.
> 
> Yeah, I should probably have mentioned that...  libc6 changes are annoying
> enough _within_ a release (I've taken to removing libc6-i686 before any
> upgrade that changes libc6, then reinstalling it - otherwise I routinely
> find myself unable to run anything).  

Right, libc6 needs careful handling - although I haven't had trouble
with it in upgrades here  :)

Peter