[arch-general] libre office java support

Richard Schütz r.schtz at t-online.de
Tue Apr 12 16:01:55 EDT 2011


Am 12.04.2011 21:54, schrieb Dennis Beekman:
> Libre Office seems to depend on the openjdk6 package but this package
> doesn't support applets in firefox and therefore i use the jre & jdk
> packages instead.
>
> When i installed the latest updates wich included Libre Office it
> removed the jre package in favor of the openjdk6 package.
> I have forced pacman to remove to openjdk package and install the jre
> and jdk packages instead... and Libre Office works fine (i see no
> diffirence at least).
>
> Is there any specific reason for Libre Office to use openjdk6 ? and can
> we perhaps change this to jre/jdk instead ?
>
>

libreoffice depends on java-runtime, which is no real package. 
java-runtine is provided by the openjdk6 and jre package, so it does not 
matter which you use.

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Regards,
Richard Schütz


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