[HLUG] open office and java

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Sarah

On 2 December 2010 13:42, Sarah Chard <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk>wrote:

> I ran update manager yesterday on my main pc (ubuntu 10.04) yesterday
> and it updated the java as follows
>
> icedtea-6-jre-cacao (6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu2) to 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
> openjdk-6-jre (6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu2) to 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
> openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu2) to
> 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
> openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b18-1.8.2-4ubuntu2) to 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
>
> this morning I found my main open office Base database is running
> painfully slowly so i assume it was the java update that did it
> is there any way i can check?
>

java -version (??)


>  - I do not know how to revert the java to the previous version or if
> that would be sensible
> any ideas?
>

Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and Maverick install the openjdk java environment, not
the sun one. Although the openjdk applications are supposed to be a lot
better these days, I tend to find the sun java packages are better.

if you install the sun-java6-bin associated packages, ie sun-java6-jre etc,
it may help.

Why it suddenly caused problems today, I dont know ..

Julian