von ds10 » 20 Jul 2013, 20:10
If you use the deb package format it depends on Java versions sun-java6-jre, openjdk-6-jre, sun-java7-jre, openjdk-7-jre or default-jre, recommended for all versions until 3.3.1 is sun-java6-jre. So only if your package system always installs the recommended version you will get sun-java6-jre if TV-Browser is installed. But since sun-java6-jre is not in the repositories for Ubuntu anymore it cannot be installed, so you still won't get Java 6 if one of the depend versions is available.
If you use the rpm package, it could also not happen because the dependency is Java 1.6 or higher.
So you had Java 6 all the time and simply didn't know it. Maybe you installed Java 7 but it is not used in the alternatives system, then you can select the Java version with:
If you use the deb package format it depends on Java versions sun-java6-jre, openjdk-6-jre, sun-java7-jre, openjdk-7-jre or default-jre, recommended for all versions until 3.3.1 is sun-java6-jre. So only if your package system always installs the recommended version you will get sun-java6-jre if TV-Browser is installed. But since sun-java6-jre is not in the repositories for Ubuntu anymore it cannot be installed, so you still won't get Java 6 if one of the depend versions is available.
If you use the rpm package, it could also not happen because the dependency is Java 1.6 or higher.
So you had Java 6 all the time and simply didn't know it. Maybe you installed Java 7 but it is not used in the alternatives system, then you can select the Java version with:
[code]sudo update-alternatives --config java[/code]