[Tfug] JRE on Debian

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Remove  all  trace of the gij complier it gets in the way all to often.
I keep a lot of Sun,IBM and BEA compiler versions on my machine.
I then do a symbolic link to desired JRE/JVM .
so my path is always
PATH=...:/opt/java/bin:...
and I do
ln -s /opt/java /opt/some/desired/jvm



On 7/13/07, George Cohn <gwcohn at simplybits.net> wrote:
> I want to install a program on a Debian Etch server that streams video.
>
> The video streamer requires the JRE 5 or better.
>
> When I issue the command java --version, I get:
>
> java version "1.4.2"
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)
>
> Should I uninstall this version before installing the 1.6 version from
> http://www.java.com?  What subdirectory should I install the later
> version in?
>
> The version 1.4.2 seems to be the latest version available in the usual
> Debian repositories.
>
> George Cohn
>
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