JRE

[Derek Broughton]

John Dangler wrote:

> I installed edgy a few days back and got the latest sun jre from the
> repo's, which I thought was 1.6 .
> When I run java --version, I get this:
> java version "1.4.2"
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
> 4.1.1-14ubuntu7)
> 
> Did I miss something?

Two things - you need to use update-alternatives to set it to use the sun
jre rather than gij, and the latest version in _edgy_ is 1.5.  You need to
get the sun-java6-jre/sun-java6.bin from feisty if you want 1.6.
-- 
derek