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While not the Java expert, I wanted to take a look at the 1.5 JRE for use |
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with a browser. Following the very clear directions presented, I emerged |
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the 1.5 JRE and then: |
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# java-config -S sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 |
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then as user |
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$ java-config -s sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06-r2 |
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Then I sourced the ~/.gentoo/java-env file as instructed. |
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When I fired up firefox, the 1.4.2.10 java vm was shown as used when I did |
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about:plugins. |
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Now, if I unmerge the jre, and emerge the 1.5 jdk and follow the |
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java-config steps above, about:plugins shows 1.5 being used for the user. |
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Only thing I can think of is that when I sourced the java-env file for the |
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JRE, the environment variable JDK_HOME still pointed to 1.4 (and correctly |
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so, since that is the only JDK). Perhaps that confused firefox? |
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Lastly, I removed all JDKs and just emerged 1.5-jre-bin and tested the |
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browser. Without a JDK installed, the browser did pick up the proper VM, |
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1.5 in this test. Of course, I had to reinstall the 1.4 jdk again. |
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If I did something wrong by installing a JRE, please advise. If you would |
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like me to do more testing or try something different, please let me know. |
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Maybe it's something as simple as needing to unser the JDK_HOME variable. |
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HTH |
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Peter |
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