I’m getting some weird problems lately with Java apps (random hangs, apps
don’t load reliably, etc.). A quick look tells me I have both the Sun and
openJDK stuff installed so I suspect this relates to an issue I saw on
another forum. Which is the best (most stable) of the two to install?
Right now I plan a brute force attack to delete all the java stuff and
re-install from scratch.
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Will Honea
Remove openJDK and leave Sun:
http://thumbnails12.imagebam.com/4339/4d82ee43389041.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/4d82ee43389041)
caf4926 wrote:
> Remove openJDK and leave Sun:
> ‘[image: http://thumbnails12.imagebam.com/4339/4d82ee43389041.gif]’
> (http://www.imagebam.com/image/4d82ee43389041)
i agree…run the SUN stuff, only…but Will, deleting all and
reinstalling may be best…you decide…
openSUSE can hang on to several different versions…i’ve been happy
lately with just one installed…and i get by with just these three pieces:
java-1_6_0-sun
java-1_6_0-sun-devel
java-1_6_0-sun-plugin
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platinum
platinum wrote:
> caf4926 wrote:
>> Remove openJDK and leave Sun:
>> ‘[image: http://thumbnails12.imagebam.com/4339/4d82ee43389041.gif]’
>> (http://www.imagebam.com/image/4d82ee43389041)
>
> i agree…run the SUN stuff, only…but Will, deleting all and
> reinstalling may be best…you decide…
>
> openSUSE can hang on to several different versions…i’ve been happy
> lately with just one installed…and i get by with just these three pieces:
>
> java-1_6_0-sun
> java-1_6_0-sun-devel
> java-1_6_0-sun-plugin
Just one question: I didn’t see the 64-bit Mozilla plugin in the Sun stuff
but I did get the plugin with the icetea (Open) version. Did I just
overlook something or is the java-1_6_0-sun-plugin still 32-bit only???
Oops - I see from your screen shot that I better have my glasses checked!
Thanks.
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Will Honea
> Oops - I see from your screen shot that I better have my glasses checked!
not my screen shot (which also proves MY glasses are far from meeting
that eye test)…
and, i can’t answer your 64 question, because i’m still in 32, though
i did load up v9.x or 10-something in 64 and decided it was more
trouble than worth…(and, i don’t have any huge dbs or crank on huge
photo RAW files…so. . .)
hmmmm…but, wouldn’t the 32 bit plugin run on your system??
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platinum
64 bit java rpms are here:-
sorry i gave the wrong link - it should be:-
dth2 wrote:
>
> sorry i gave the wrong link - it should be:-
>
> ‘Index of /factory/repo/non-oss/suse/x86_64’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/suse/x86_64/)
Right on. After platinum’s post, I went back and looked again. This time,
I limited the yast search to “java-1_6” and there it was. Don’t know how I
missed it the first time but now the FireFox plugin and DB2’s Control
Console play nice together again.
After revisiting the ps output, I don’t think it was a matter of having both
installed but the fact that different programs were invoked in such a way
that BOTH versions were trying to run at the same time and stepping on each
other in some obscure fashion. In fact, once I re-installed the Sun 1.6
plugin and overwrote the FireFox plugin to Sun rather than the openJDK
plugin all the problems seemed to resolve.
Anyway, I feel a lot more confident about having a single java version
running with no chance of collision now. Lesson learned.
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Will Honea
The problem probably was that 64 bit Webstart was only added after the release of openSuSE 11.1 so it can only be found in the update repo.
Personally I don’t install software from the main factory repo, since I’m scared that these programs are compiled for a different kernel version etc. You can get the plugin from the main update repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/rpm/x86_64/java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u15-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
Also on the conflicting installation of openJDK and Sun Java, as far as I know there should be no problem, since update-alternatives should create the correct symlinks. I have both installed (actually Java 5 and 7 too) and switch between them without a problem.
There is no problem in having multiple Java versions installed, the problem is wrong symlinks in /usr/bin or somewhere else.
