[F9] Openoffice + java

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Fri Jun 13 13:34:52 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 23:40 +0200, MKas wrote:
> Why I can't uninstall java-1.5.0 through yum without uninstalling
> openoffice? (I have downloaded java-1.6.0 so I don't need java-1.5.0
> anymore)

Because OpenOffice needs some java parts and the accompanying gcj bits
require gcj.  The regular java bytecode will probably run just fine with
either gcj or OpenJDK but the gcj bits require gcj.

Andrew




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