Oh, you probably need commercial repos in ubuntu now. Oracle (anything) is technically not free. At best it wants your soul, at worst it wants cash, as oracle jre 9 wants cash to use it from developers. Which only hastens its death unless that's all a developer knows. Everyone in India learns it as a second language since 1999, it's the only reason it still exists. -mb On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:29 AM Michael Butash wrote: > Again OpenJDK and OracleJRE are totally different - including version > numbers. If someone says "works with Java 8", they 99.9% of the time mean > OracleJRE and their versions, and theirs only. > > OpenJDK is only ever used with, well, I don't even know anymore, as > everyone Open Source moved on to hate Java, Oracle, Larry Ellison, etc. > You can pretty safely remove/forget OpenJDK as an end-user at this point I > think, unless something specifically mentions needing it. > > -mb > > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:24 AM Michael wrote: > >> Thanks for the tip! >> So then looking at it it looks as if I have Java 11 installed. Is that >> correct? >> >> apt search oracle jre >> ... >> i openjdk-11-jre - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT >> p openjdk-11-jre:i386 - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT >> p openjdk-11-jre-dcevm - Alternative >> VM for OpenJDK 11 with enhanced class redefinition >> p openjdk-11-jre-dcevm:i386 - Alternative >> VM for OpenJDK 11 with enhanced class redefinition >> i openjdk-11-jre-headless - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless) >> p openjdk-11-jre-headless:i386 - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless) >> p openjdk-11-jre-zero - Alternative >> JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero >> p openjdk-11-jre-zero:i386 - Alternative >> JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero >> p openjdk-8-jre - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT >> p openjdk-8-jre:i386 - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT >> p openjdk-8-jre-dcevm - Alternative >> VM for OpenJDK 8 with enhanced class redefinition >> p openjdk-8-jre-dcevm:i386 - Alternative >> VM for OpenJDK 8 with enhanced class redefinition >> p openjdk-8-jre-headless - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless) >> p openjdk-8-jre-headless:i386 - OpenJDK >> Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless) >> p openjdk-8-jre-zero - Alternative >> JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero/Shark >> p openjdk-8-jre-zero:i386 - Alternative >> JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero/Shark >> p spamoracle - statistical >> analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula >> p spamoracle:i386 - statistical >> analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula >> v spamoracle-byte - >> v spamoracle-byte:i386 - >> >> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:12 PM Michael Butash wrote: >> > >> > OpenJDK and Oracle JRE are two very different beasts. Most java >> software is developed against Oracle Java, and if so, rarely I find they >> ever work on OpenJDK. >> > >> > Look up switching to "oracle jre" on your system, Java 8 as they want. >> I had to figure this out on my arch system recently, ubuntu should just >> have to install it, and switch the system to use it, just forget how now. >> If nothing else, start with "apt search oracle jre". >> > >> > Nothing Java ever amounts to any good I've found after ~20 years of it, >> I try to use Java as little as possible, scorning any software and hardware >> (ahem, Cisco) that uses it still. Anything Java behaves badly under linux >> for me, and the only thing java app I suffer is JBidwatcher for ebay >> sniping deals. It behaves badly, randomly, but still the only darn thing I >> can find like it free. >> > >> > -mb >> > >> > >> > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:50 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> I want to download a program, ImageJ. I went to the download page and >> see: >> >> >> >> Unfortunately, due to the ongoing transition from Java 6 to Java 8, >> >> this download of "plain ImageJ2" cannot currently be updated to the >> >> latest Java-8-compatible version. See the Java 8 page for details. For >> >> the time being, we recommend using the Fiji distribution of ImageJ to >> >> stay current with updates. >> >> >> >> Curious as to what version of Java I have.... >> >> >> >> ~$ java -version >> >> openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14 >> >> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-2ubuntu218.04) >> >> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-2ubuntu218.04, >> >> mixed mode, sharing) >> >> >> >> So they are a bit behind? >> >> -- >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >