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smika

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 25

How to install older JRE?

I am using Libreoffice en since last week I updated JRE to version 7. There is a know issue that Libreoffice can't work with JRE7. How can I remove jre7 and install jre6?

Thanks a lot,

Smika

Last edited by smika (2011-08-04 21:29:00)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: How to install older JRE?

http://arm.konnichi.com/search/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_Packages

Last edited by karol (2011-08-04 21:30:37)

smika

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 25

Re: How to install older JRE?

whoooooow... that;s fast! I downloaded the latest jre 6 release and everything works fine!!! I bookmarked this URL.

Thanks!

Smika

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: How to install older JRE?

You should read the wiki, the url is mentioned there :-)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: How to install older JRE?

I have jre7 and libreoffice. and it works for me. Atleast calc and writer. You should check out why it doesn't work for you instead of simply downgrading.

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MartijnL

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From: Leiden, The Netherlands

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 23

Re: How to install older JRE?

Diito to what Inxsible said. JRE 7 and Libreoffice are working together fine for me. Apparently the package libreoffice was -wisely- split into its various components. For some reason libreoffice-base was missing for me and the JRE path needed to be set. Perhaps you were using the old libreoffice package or forgot to add libreoffice-base and libreoffice-common?

mavoix

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Registered: 2011-08-12

Posts: 1

Re: How to install older JRE?

Happened to me also on a fresh Arch install with Java 7 and all LibreOffice packages installed. Did some searching, and we're not alone:

http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/1062
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39659
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118352

If you don't get the error message at startup, my guess is that you don't have an extension installed that tries to use Java right away. Shrug. (I have all the extensions from extra installed.)