I am running openSuSE 11.4 on an x64 machine, and when it was installed, it installed the x64 version of the openJDK 1.6 Java by default. But when I tried to install Eclipse and the Apache-James server source for debugging purposes, I found that I could not run Eclipse using the x64 openJDK. SO I uninstalled it and installed the i586 (32 bit version) of Java 1.6 from Sun. That resulted in a number of broken links in places like /etc/alternatives, /usr/lib/jvm.... Also the java files and links were not removed from /usr/lib64/jvm resulting in java environment variables such as JAVA_HOME etc being incorrectly set to point to x64 java packages (because of the mere existence of these files and links remaining in the lib64 directory). In other words, this resulted in a real mess and it has taken me quite a bit of time and effort to track down and fix. (which scares me because if an update for Java comes along, what is going to happen to all my changes...) My question is this, is running (or downgrading to) a 32 bit version of Java on a 64 bit machine not supported in openSuSE? Should I be complaining about it here (perhaps submit a bug report) or should I go to Eclipse and complain about not being able to run Eclipse under an x64 bit architecture? (Don't ask me what all broke, I spent a number of hours tracking things down and have no idea what all the changes I made were... and a few things are not well documented either so I had to make a few guesses...) Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Marc Chamberlin