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[cybormoron]

I found my clock displaying the wrong time so I installed ntp and it works ok now.

I went to the official time website to check but it wants me to install a java runtime plugin. I didn't want to do so through the finder dialog but would rather use synaptic.



Synaptic has the sun-java6-jre package. Would this be the correct one?


Should I have just used the finder service?

[amenditman]

I found my clock displaying the wrong time so I installed ntp and it works ok now.

I went to the official time website to check but it wants me to install a java runtime plugin. I didn't want to do so through the finder dialog but would rather use synaptic.



Synaptic has the sun-java6-jre package. Would this be the correct one?


Should I have just used the finder service?

I never use a third party site to install plugins, always use your distro's package manager and trusted repositories.
You could use the Sun Java RE or the openjdk jre. Either should work.

[cybormoron]

yessiree amenditman, never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever install software from a third party. That's the first thing Bruno said to me six years ago and it's my top rule.

Does the jre include the browser plugin? Seems to me I used to have to make symbolic links or something like that? I haven't done it in a while.

[securitybreach]

I agree, I also use openjdk6:

CODE

╔═ comhack@Cerberus 10:28 PM
╚═══ ~-> pacman -Qi openjdk6 | grep Version
Version        : 6.b24_1.11-1