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Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu questions
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Just so you know, manually installing java on any debian based os
(ubuntu included) will probably cause you problems later on. You
really want to use dpkg so you have more control and less conflicts
with other stuff. The wiki explains how to do this.
-Jon
On 11/6/06, Jonathan Bringhurst <fintler@gmail.com> wrote:
There's a big section on the wiki for this. Check out
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java. There's some issues with
licensing, so it's a bit of a pita.
-Jon
On 11/6/06, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> I've "rebuilt" my linux workstation - this time with an Asus
> A8V-VM and an Athlon 64 X2. I put Ubuntu for x86_64 on it.
> Gnome gets some "getting used to" since I've been using KDE
> almost exclusively.
>
> There are two things that trouble me:
> 1. I'm using Thunderbird. When I install Enigmail (or try to)
> it tells me that it's not for the x86_64 architecture. That's
> strange since in installed it in my SuSE x86_64 system. Perhaps
> there's something that I need to install in Ubuntu to make it
> run non-x86_64 binaries?
>
> 2. I need java. When I type "java -version" it tells me that
> it's running java "1.4.2" - but not sun's java. What is it that
> I'm getting? An open-source implementation of Java? If so then
> I need to un-install that and get the latest java from Sun or IBM.
> Is there an "apt-get" way of un-installing the java I have and
> getting the "real thing" or do I just use the SUN/IBM installer?
>
> Eric
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