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Re: [opensuse] Updating Java with rpm
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:01:26 -0700
- Message-id: <200904010901.27134.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday April 1 2009, Dave Feustel wrote:
You really have to be more specific than that. There's a Sun JRE and JDK
(the only ones I recommend using) and the OpenJDK versions (which are
often acceptable). There's also Gnu Classpath, but that's beneath
mention. Or would be were not for the fact that it's what's installed
by default. Gnu Classpath and all related packages should be expunged
and the Sun JRE and / or JDK should be installed instead.
Links may not be the best way to handle it. Any system as big as Maple
almost certainly has a centralized configuration file that establishes
the location of key resources like the JVM. If not, then at the very
least it's a variable in a launcher script (or scripts).
Randall Schulz
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:31:33AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday April 1 2009, Dave Feustel wrote:
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:20:46AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
...
The u13 update (as well as a Java 1.5 update) are now available
through the ordinary openSUSE update channels.
I just this morning ran yast online update but no updates
occurred. ...
Well, if you didn't install the Sun Java packages, then there'll be
nothing to update. You'll have to install them first from a
distribution repository (DVD or on-lien) and then update.
Java 1.6 is installed on Suse. My desire to use Java was the reason I
started working with Suse. I'm now sold on Java, but I am still
intimidated by the size and complexity of the Java system.
You really have to be more specific than that. There's a Sun JRE and JDK
(the only ones I recommend using) and the OpenJDK versions (which are
often acceptable). There's also Gnu Classpath, but that's beneath
mention. Or would be were not for the fact that it's what's installed
by default. Gnu Classpath and all related packages should be expunged
and the Sun JRE and / or JDK should be installed instead.
I'm not sure I know what you mean by embedded, but if you mean one
that's bundled with a particular application (oXygen comes to
mind), it won't. I've never been thwarted in "redirecting" such an
app to use a different JRE or JVM, but then, I'm a Java programmer
and have been for many years, so I know my way around it.
I have wondered if I could replace the JRE in Maple 12 with links to
the JRE that is now installed in Suse.
Links may not be the best way to handle it. Any system as big as Maple
almost certainly has a centralized configuration file that establishes
the location of key resources like the JVM. If not, then at the very
least it's a variable in a launcher script (or scripts).
Randall Schulz
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