A post by Jonathan Wilson on 3 May touched on this, and just in time for my test install of SO6 yesterday. OO/SO will not recognise 1.1.8 at all, and Chris' points below both explain that, and provide a clever way of dealing with it. For those like my namesake, though, who just want OO/SO to work with Java2, the short reason for why it won't see it is that the symlink java in /usr/lib is pointing to 1.1.8. Before or during the install, therefore, open a terminal, and enter the following: su (+password) cd /usr/lib mv java java1 ln -s SunJava2-1.3.1 java exit OO/SO should now see Java2, and you can continue with the install. HTH Kevin
I ran into a similar problem with InterBase - it requires JDK 1.1.8. Here's what to do:
1. run setup -net as root. (may already be done) 2. run setup as a user, and select any JDK you can (or none). 3. edit the file $HOME/OpenOffice.org1.0/user/config/javarc a. replace "RequiredVersion=1.3.0" with "RequiredVersion=1.2.1" (or whatever version you need to install). b. delete 1.2.1 from "ExcludeVersion=1.1.6 1.1.7b 1.1.7B 1.1.8 1.2.1" if needed. 4. run /path/to/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/jvmsetup and you should be able to select the desired version of the JDK.