Re: How to update JRE?

[Stephen Kitchener <stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk>]

On Monday 21 Jul 2003 22:44 pm, beolach@juno.com wrote:
Thanks Conway.

Getting them now 

> <http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html> has a link; it goes
> to <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html>.  It looks
> like this might be the 1.4.2 SDK, but it does have the VM and
> JRE as well as the SDK.  If I remember right from when I
> installed it, it installs to a different location from the
> older JREs, so I had to tweak all my browsers plugin search
> paths.
>
> Conway S. Smith
>
> --- Stephen Kitchener <stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk> 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.
>
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