Thanks for your replies. So no interaction it will be.The package I am thinking about is supposed to install itself in the JRE directory (java). Some configuration have a JAVA_HOME variable set, which allows the PKGBUILD to decide for the user, but some do not have it.
I searched askubuntu and tried the suggestions but failed .I try this question:How to completely uninstall/reinstall Java
1.I run sudo apt-cache search openjdk get the following:
openjdk-6-dbg - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (debugging symbols)
openjdk-6-demo - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (demos and examples)
openjdk-6-doc - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) documentation
openjdk-6-jdk - OpenJDK D
I have recently installed openjdk just to try out writing some java application
$ dpkg -l | grep jdk
ii openjdk-7-jdk 7u7-2.3.2a-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
ii openjdk-7-jre 7u7-2.3.2a-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
ii openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u7-2.3.2a-0ubuntu
On March 7, in a security notice Canonical published details about OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating systems.
According to Canonical, OpenJDK could be made to crash or run programs as you login if it opened a specially crafted file.
USN-1755-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6.
Setting up openjdk-7-jre-headless:i386 (7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/jexec doesn't exist
dpkg: error processing openjdk-7-jre-headless:i386 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openjdk-7-jre:i386:
openjdk-
I recently installed Sun's Java because of performance issues running Minecraft.
When I try to remove the OpenJDK packages by
sudo apt-get purge openjdk*
however, the JDownloader package is being removed as well.
If I try to remove all OpenJDK-7 packages one by one, OpenJDK-6 is being installed instead.
IMHO there should be a way to satisfy JDownloader's dependencies for a Java runtime environ
As the title says, I was trying to install OpenJDK 6 Runtime on Ubuntu 12.04, but I'm getting this error:
"Package dependencies cannot be resolved.
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable.
On March 6, Canonical published details about OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities, in a security notice, for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, OpenJDK could be made to crash or run programs as you login if it opened a specially crafted file.
For example, it was discovered that OpenJDK did not properly validate certain types of images.
I'm new to Java development under Ubuntu. When I typed javac in the terminal, it prompted me to install OpenJDK and a bunch of other JDKs. I want to know if there is any difference between OpenJDK 7 and Oracle's JDK 7. Are they basically the same? Thanks.