On 2011-04-22, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I need somebody to explain to me in lay terms what's "wrong" with Java > in Debian. I'm running Squeeze and have recently bumped into two > Java-related issues: > > 1. The site http://ndt.switch.ch/ warns me about a missing Java Runtime > Environment and prompts me to install it. I checked with aptitude, and > sure enough, openjdk-6-jre is installed.
You will need the browser plugin as well as the JRE. See the table in http://wiki.debian.org/Java for the available options. If you can tolerate non-free software, then I recommend sun-java6-plugin. > > 2. The game > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bp2k6/files/Bolzplatz%202006/Bolzplatz%202006%20v1.0.3/ > > won't work, and I'm far too ignorant of Java to find out what exactly > I'm missing. Is it that I'm running 64-bit and the game is 32-bit? Or > do I need a particular plugin? Or perhaps just a symlink to the right > binary somewhere? Or the proprietary Java from Sun? Or something else? Same reason as above, I suspect. > > Also, in general, how can I know when something Java-related won't > work, is it the fault of the open Java I'm using or some wrong > configuration somewhere in my system? Hard to say. But you can investigate each incident by switching between Java installations using /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives (from the java-common package). > > Is there any simple, yet good howto on this? > I haven't found a howto which is both simple and good. A lot of documentation is available, but most of it is complicated and a lot of it is obsolete. -- Liam O'Toole Cork, Ireland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnir5apd.enl.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
