[PLUG] Play Android App on Linux?

[Dick Steffens]

On 10/3/19 1:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> I was going to ask if the jdk and the jre can interfere with each other,
>> but I see from your comments that, at least if I use Oracle's version,
>> they don't.
>
> Dick,
>
> JRE is a subset of the JDK. The former allows you to run java 
> applications
> while the latter adds the tools to write java applications, too.
>
>> Will I run into trouble trying to install the jdk with an existing 
>> jre? Or
>> should I uninstall the existing jre and then install the jdk?
>
> You can run multiple versions simultaneously. Doesn't matter if they're
> Oracle's stuff or openjdk/openjre. But, some applications use the FX 
> widget
> set rather than an older one and some of the open* don't include javajfx.
>
> For simplicity, install Oracle's versions needed by the software you run.
>
> Good luck!

Thanks. I'll try installing Oracle's version without uninstalling the 
other one and see if there are complaints. If there are, I'll uninstall 
the version in Synaptic.


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Regards,

Dick Steffens