Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Liam O'Toole schreef:

On 2010-04-14, Clive Standbridge <clive.standbri...@myriadgroup.com> wrote:

After reloading Iceweasel, about:plugins still showed the previous JRE I
was using, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.

Assuming that I can use a later version of JRE downloaded from Sun on
Iceweasel 3.5, am I on the right track but did not get the newer version
set up correctly, or is there a different way?

The browser plugin uses a different alternative, namely
libjavaplugin_oji.so. You will find the target of the alternative in the
directory /usr/lib/jvm/1.6.0_19/plugin/i386/ns7/

The update-java-alternatives command should sort this out.
This will show you the available alternatives:
     /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives --list

Then as root run something like
    update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

Note there's a load of java-related items which that command sets. To

see the list, run /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives --verbose --list

While the update-java-alternatives command is useful, it helps only if
the package already provides an alternative. The OP has to set up the
alternative manually.

or use backports.org to install a more recent version of Sun's java.

Sjoerd

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