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Re: [LUG] JRE suddenly missing

 

On 16/12/11 18:35, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I occasionally run a program in my browser which checks the speed of
> downloads. It needs Java and has been working fine. Today I suddenly get
> the message that Java is not installed or not activated. I have not
> touched anything to do with Java since I installed Mint 10 last April.
>
> Looking at synaptic I find that sun-java-bin and sun-java6-jre are both
> marked as installed. Also sun-java6-plugin is installed. Now I don't
> know where to go next.
>
> Should I re-install these or is there some way to get java running which
> has somehow gone wrong? Could it be a recent update which has caused
> this without me knowing?
>
> Any help gratefully received,
>
> Neil
>

which java
java -version
update-java-alternatives -l
update-java-alternatives -s *your-java-version-here*

Mat

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