[PLUG] Java on Ubuntu 10.04

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Sat Aug 11 00:47:37 UTC 2012


On 08/10/2012 05:40 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:59:48 -0700
> "Richard C. Steffens" <rsteff at comcast.net> dijo:
>
>> Which version of Java should I be trying to use?
> You can have various Javas installed simultaneously. In LibreOffice you
> can select which one it should use. There is also a command line tool
> (since forgotten) that allows you to set one as the default. I
> currently have four Javas installed, although I don't know which is the
> default. Everything is working, so I haven't fussed with it.
>
> Also, if a .deb is not available, but there is an .rpm, you can convert
> the .rpm to .deb with alien at the command line. Alien comes as
> standard equipment on Ubuntus, at least as far as 10.04.

Thanks, John. I'll just pick one and give it a try. I see that Alien is 
installed on my machine, so I'll try that, too.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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