error with java

[Christopher Lemire]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Which site in Java? For what it's worth, the java.com "Do I have Java"
> page has never worked for me. 

It works for me. It says I don't have the recommended version of Java which is probably the latest available version of Java, but I do have Java. It tells me what version of Java I have.

"Verifying Java Version

Oops! You don't have the recommended Java installed.

Your Java version is Version 6 Update 15. Please click the button below to get the recommended Java for your computer.

NOTE: If you recently completed your Java software installation, you may need to restart your browser (close all browser windows and re-open) before verifying your installation."

If for some reason I needed the latest, I would uninstall Ubuntu's packaged Java and install the .bin Java installer from java.sun.com. I like having my software in packages though. It's much easier to add/remove/uprade and keep track of dependencies, so normally I'll use a package unless I have some real need to have a newer version. And if deb packages compiled by the the maintainers were compiled with different options than what I want, I will use the apt-get source packagename command to change that and have a deb package from it after compiling it. I described this process in my blog here.

http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com/2009/08/recompile-debian-packages-with.html

I've also got some gnome-applet debs made for 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 that include minicommander already built. If anyone wants them, let me know.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I can only recommend installing yourself. I keep mine in the standard
> /usr/lib/jvm folder and then in ~/.mozilla I create a 'plugins' folder
> (~/.mozilla/plugins) and then create a symlink to the appropriate
> libnpjp2.so file:
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_18/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

That's not necessary. I do not even have a ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and Java works fine. Directories like that are for people who want to install something but don't have root privileges to install something system wide, so they install in their home directories just for their user.

Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
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