Hi I have just installed lmde, and I would like to add freeplane. When I go to synaptic manager and select freeplane, it also installs the iceteajava plugin. I have previously experienced that some online services (my bank) only would work with the non-free sun java. So I am wondering if I am going to get in trouble here if I install freeplane, or if the earlier conflicts with java have been resolved. Also I could choose not to install the icedtea plugins, but I am not sure if Freeplane then will work.
thankyou.
java and java
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Re: java and java
thorbs wrote:Hi I have just installed lmde, and I would like to add freeplane. When I go to synaptic manager and select freeplane, it also installs the iceteajava plugin. I have previously experienced that some online services (my bank) only would work with the non-free sun java. So I am wondering if I am going to get in trouble here if I install freeplane, or if the earlier conflicts with java have been resolved. Also I could choose not to install the icedtea plugins, but I am not sure if Freeplane then will work.
thankyou.
Of course you'll get in trouble...somebody will come right over and beat ya up ... erm... just kidding - who or what should give you trouble?
Linux Mint has always been based on a Distro (Ubuntu or Debian) with non-free stuff added to it. Especially Multimedia - but java also fits into this category.
As a matter of fact, not only is it easy to install non-free java (or set it again as default if it's already there) - but I believe, a lot of people do it, too (myself included)
and there are hardly any dependency problems. Multiple Javas can live side-by-side.
There are a lot of applications (i.e.; banking software in my country, Germany) that run best (or at all) with Sun's java - I concur with you there.
If Sun's Java is already installed but another Java is the current default on your system:
To change the default java to be used, on a commandline do
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sudo update-alternatives --config javaDepending on your uses, you may repeat the step for javaws (Java Web Start).
And just in case, if Sun Java isn't installed it but you would like it, the package management should help, or on a commandline
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre