Which Java to use?

[Josef Lowder]

I did as you suggested, Joseph Sinclair (install them from synaptic)
and that worked fine.

Thanks very much.

On 3/20/09, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
> You'll need java-1.6.0-sun and java-1.6.0-sun-plugin (the web browser plugin).
>
>  Be aware the plugin only works correctly in a 32-bit system.  The plugin can be compiled for 64-bit, but the latest Ubuntu build packaged it wrong in the 64-bit archives, it may work sometimes, but it's not reliable in 64-bit mode and can cause ugly crashes.
>
>  Java 1.7 (when it's released, hopefully soon) should fix a lot of these issues, and will probably be default installed on most Linux distros, since it's under GPLv3 so the distros can compile it for their packages direct from source, instead of relying on the Sun bin installer and some hacks.