[F9] Openoffice + java

[Laurent Vaills]

2008/6/13 Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com>:

> 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


It's possible to keep both Java installations and to use alternatives to
always use the Java 6 .

Laurent




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