On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:28 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

I discovered that my system has three different versions of the Java Runtime Environment: 1.4.2., 1.5.0, and a second 1.5.0 that apparently came directly from Sun (but still in the form of an rpm). Is it a problem to have multiple versions around? And if so, which one should I keep? (Yast doesn't object to having all three.)

Shouldn't be a problem. As long as your specific apps know which version to access you're good to go. I had 1.4 and 1.5 running on the same machine for a year. (It may still be running both on that machine, I'm not sure.) When I installed 10.0, I just went with the 1.5 version, which is what I've got. My user space has the 1.6 (mustang) version running under my local profile.

Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

I discovered that my system has three different versions of the Java Runtime Environment: 1.4.2., 1.5.0, and a second 1.5.0 that apparently came directly from Sun (but still in the form of an rpm). Is it a problem to have multiple versions around? And if so, which one should I keep? (Yast doesn't object to having all three.)

Keep all three. You should can use (as root) update-alternatives to choose between the two RPM-installed versions. -- JDL