2010/4/15 NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> > On 04/15/2010 01:52 AM, M Henri Day wrote: > ... > > Harold, do you know of any way to remove earlier, unselected versions of > > Java from the list box you mention above ? On My laptop, for example, the > > current version (1.6.0 19) from Sun Microsystems is selected, but an > earlier > > version (1.5.0) from Free Software Foundation is also listed. I've tried > > various keystroke combinations in an attempt to delete the latter, but no > > joy. Can this be done ?... > > > > Henri > > > > You are probably getting it from: > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.4 > > If you don't need it, you can purge the packages: > > $ sudo apt-get purge gcj-4.4-jre-headless gcj-jre-headless > ... >
NoOp, in addition to «java-1.5.0-gcj», «java-1.50-gcj-4.4» and «java-gcj-4.4 » folders under usr/lib/jvm, I also see «java-1.6,0-openjdk», «java-6-openjdk», «java-6-sun», «java-6-sun-1.6.0.19», «java-gcj» and, of course, «default-java». I hope, under these circumstances, I can be excused if I'm a bit confused as to what, exactly, it is that I need. What I see displayed in Synaptic is also confusing, but the four different «sun-java6» packages there («-bin», «-fonts», «-jre», and «-plugin», respectively) are all the «6.190ubuntu3» version (an Ubuntuised version of 6,20 doesn't seem to have yet been released to the repositories). Given this situation, do I dare use that purge command you suggested above ?... Henri
