Java 6 vs. java 5

[wiseguy]

I cannot get any java games such as Pogo, only with Java 5, and I cannot get frostwire without java 6.

Bottom line is I have to uninstall and reinstall depending what I want to do.

[wiseguy]

Hopes this helps someone :guitar:

[jamesstansell]

It is easy to keep Java 5 and 6 (and multiple versions of each) installed, so you shouldn't have to keep re-installing if you get tired of it.

If you only ever run one Java app at a time you can use update-java-alternatives to switch between the Java version you need. That limitation will probably get old too though.

The key to running multiple apps, each using a different version of java is to change the way you launch the applications. There are many ways to do that so I won't try to go into it right now.

-james.

[wiseguy]

thanks for the tip.

[tinny]

Are you using Sun Java 6?

The OpenJDK versions of the Java runtime are not very good (the default).

If I where you id install Sun Java 6 from the repositories (I used this version and its solid).

To uninstall OpenJDK...


sudo apt-get remove --purge openjdk*


To setup Sun Java 6... (Must have multiverse repositories enabled)


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin

[wiseguy]

Are you using Sun Java 6?

The OpenJDK versions of the Java runtime are not very good (the default).

If I where you id install Sun Java 6 from the repositories (I used this version and its solid).

To uninstall OpenJDK...


sudo apt-get remove --purge openjdk*


To setup Sun Java 6... (Must have multiverse repositories enabled)


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin


I tried that and cannot still play online java games such as...

http://www.pogo.com

I need version 5 to play any games from here.

[tinny]

I tried that and cannot still play online java games such as...

http://www.pogo.com

I need version 5 to play any games from here.

Are you using a 64 bit version of Ubuntu?

Version 6 is not your problem. (6 is backward compatible)

[xen-uno]

The Pogo link you gave has Flash based games, not Java.

For x64 Hardy and FireFox 3, the only additional item that needed to be installed was ndiswrapper ... as I remember.