daviddoria

I'm really having a heck of a time with this. It seems that when I get whatever is currently complaining about java working, that something else breaks. When I go to java.com and click "verify my installation", it says i have version 1.4, but when i do

java -version

it says 1.6. Why do these numbers disagree? Also some things like matlab are constantly complaining about something. For example, i have to start matlab from /usr/local/bin or it says it cant find java. That is clearly just a path issue, but I feel like that means something didn't go right in the installation (although it seems to go very smoothly).

Can anyone tell me how to "start over" and which java I should install?
Please let me know if anything needs clarification.


Thanks,

David

XenNetwork

usually java applications require the java-jre package you can download it from here Sun Downloads look for java for web browsing even tho it works with applications and not just browsers. if that dosent work use apt or synaptic to install it as an easier way.