Which Java to use?

[Joseph Sinclair]

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.

Josef Lowder wrote:
> Some of the websites I have to use say they require Java to work.
> What a nuisance.  Being leery of installing Java from one of those
> websites, I went to the Synoptic package manager to see if I could
> get it there. But it lists a whole bunch of different Java options, so
> how is one supposed to know which to use?
> 
> Since we apparently can't attach an image to a plug message,
> I uploaded a screen capture of what Synoptic is showing here:
> 
> http://www.upquick.com/view/java.synoptic.jpg
> 
> What should I select?
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