Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> Oddball wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer schreef:
> > > I'm running 64-bit.  Flash works.  Don't know about Java.  What's a
> > > good site to test that on?
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >   
> >
> > http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
>
> Just following on from the python-gtk fiasco mentioned in another 
> thread, I went to the above site and did THE TEST  :-) , and, just as 
> with the business of python-gtk, I am now totally c-o-n-f-u-s-e-d, to 
> put it politely  :-( .
>
> Doing the test resulted in me being given the message, "Oooops, you are 
> using the wrong version of java" - or words to this effect. So I go 
> looking for the "right" version of java.
>
> In YaST2 Software Management I can see that I have java-1_5_0-sun 
> installed but just a little way down there is java-1_6_0-sun staring me 
> in the face.
>
> Both versions come from opensuse.org/update/10.3 repository so why 
> hasn't  YaST2 upgraded java to the newer 1.6 version (as indicated in 
> the result of THE TEST)?

That, I can only guess. What I did, awhile ago, was to start installing 
both versions and some problems went away. I can only guess that there 
are a few odd-ball apps. that can't figure out to use version 6 as they 
should. ;)

Fred

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