java update

[jrtroxell]

Today Java interrupted a game I was playing telling me I had to update - no choice or options. Their links didn't work. I had to go to the java website. If I hadn't learned dos commands back in the 80s, I never could have made the update. Luckily I remembered you can change directories one step at a time, going forward and running dir to see what you have. The last step worked just as the help screen directed - an ln command. Basically I don't know what I did at the last step. Linus is a trip, for sure.

[mdavies5]

You haven't mentioned which distro you are using. I have never been interrupted by Java, probably because I develop in Java and always install the latest version. Normally any software should tell you which version of Java is needed. As a developer, if I use a function that was introduced in version 7 and you are using version 6 then the software wouldn't know what to do when it came to execute that function. It is quite good of Java to handle that quite well. I agree that installing Java is not the simplest. It is easiest to search your distro's sources and install that version if possible.