{"id":246,"date":"2009-09-12T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2016-07-27T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T03:58:36","slug":"uninstall-sun-java6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/12\/uninstall-sun-java6\/","title":{"rendered":"uninstall sun-java6"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the vrms meme raging on Planet Ubuntu, I noticed some people still have sun-java6 installed. I’ve been using openjdk-6 since Hardy, and everything I use works fine with it (e.g. Vuze<\/a>, Catan<\/a>, Eclipse<\/a>, FreeMind<\/a>, and even Facebook’s photo uploader thing). Given the Ubuntu Tech Board’s “remove sun-java6 from the archive”<\/a> Agenda item, it’s possible sun-java6 (being redundant and orphaned<\/a>) would go away in Ubuntu Karmic (sun-java5 is already gone because Sun will drop support<\/a> for it in October, and sun-java6 is not far behind).<\/p>\n

I’ve heard some noises about openjdk-6 not working for people, but I haven’t actually seen any direct technical evidence of something working in one and not the other. Seeing as Jaunty’s OpenJDK was certified by Sun<\/a>, it would be very interesting to find failures, as this would indicate that Sun’s certifications are missing something.<\/p>\n

Looking for examples of failures in Google, I couldn’t find anything with obvious test-cases that failed with openjdk-6. I suspect I’m just not trying hard enough, but I’m curious what other people have run into.<\/p>\n

Test for yourself:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get purge sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin
\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk icedtea6-plugin<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Don’t forget to restart your browser.)<\/p>\n

© 2009 – 2016, Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.
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With the vrms meme raging on Planet Ubuntu, I noticed some people still have sun-java6 installed. I’ve been using openjdk-6 since Hardy, and everything I use works fine with it (e.g. Vuze, Catan, Eclipse, FreeMind, and even Facebook’s photo uploader thing). Given the Ubuntu Tech Board’s “remove sun-java6 from the archive” Agenda item, it’s possible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,14,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}