Re: How to update JRE?

["David Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>]

http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html

When I was there earlier, it was a beta release. Just 
checked it now, and it's apparently no longer beta.

David
gnome@hawaii.rr.com

On 21 Jul 03, at 22:14, Stephen Kitchener wrote:

> On Monday 21 Jul 2003 20:50 pm, beolach@juno.com wrote:
> 
> Hmmm - looked on Sun's site, didn't see a 1.4.2 anywhere,
> only a 1.4.1-03, do you know where it is ??
> 
> > Before installing Sun's version of JRE, you might want
> > to look into the differences between Sun's and
> > Blackdown's JRE. As far as I understand it, if you use
> > the latest version of Sun's JRE (1.4.2), it is the best
> > choice, but if you want to use version 1.4.1 or older,
> > you might need to use Blackdown if you want to use the
> > plugins in Mozilla, if Mozilla was compiled with gcc
> > ver. 3.x. A nice summary page is available at
> > <http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/whichjava.html>.
> >
> > But remember, this only applies to JRE 1.4.1 or older,
> > with Sun's JRE 1.4.2 this is no longer an issue, and so
> > Sun's JRE 1.4.2 will probably be your best choice,
> > unless the program you want to run specifically says it
> > will only work with an older version.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents worth,
> > Conway S. Smith
> >
> > --- "James Turnbull" <james@lovedthanlost.net> wrote:
> > > David Jones wrote:
> > > > I have a *very recently updated* (like installed and
> > > > completely apt-getted and updated and such like 10
> > > > days ago) Debian. It came with a JRE identifying
> > > > itself as 1.4.1, build Blackdown-1.4.1-01. I've been
> > > > informed by the author of a certain Java program
> > > > that I like (at the moment, not the author, just the
> > > > program!) to go the Sun JRE link on his web site and
> > > > download that version - which, according to the
> > > > target of the link on his web page, is version 1.4.1
> > > > ... anyway, how does one update a JRE on Linux? I've
> > > > only done it on WIndows and OS/2 (both via an
> > > > executable that you download and run).
> > >
> > > At the Sun Site
> > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html there is
> > > > a .bin file available to download.
> > >
> > > Here are instructions for unpacking .bin files:
> > >
> > > http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2329
> >
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