[PLUG] Resolved: Java on Ubuntu 10.04

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 08/10/2012 05:47 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> 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.

I installed openjdk-6-jre using Synaptic. Then, with Firefox, I went to 
a Java test page:

http://javatester.org/version.html

Firefox displayed a bar above the content of the page that said a 
plug-in was needed to display the some of the content on the page. At 
that point, there was a box a little below that said something to the 
effect that Java wasn't working or not installed. I clicked on the 
button in the bar above and iced-tea installed itself in Firefox. After 
that, the box a little below showed a pink rectangle telling me that 
Java Version: 1.6.0_24 from Sun Microsystems Inc." is installed.

I can now successfully access the Costco photo upload page.

>> In LibreOffice you
>> can select which one it should use.

Yes. I found it under Tools/Options. In the first section there is a 
list with Java at the bottom. Clicking on that changes what is displayed 
on the right to the Java options panel. I now have the choice of two 
environments. I changed from the version at location:

  /use/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre

to the version at location:

  usr/libljvm/java-6-openjdk/jre

LibreOffice Writer appears to be working normally.

Thanks to all who responded.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens