up vote 0 down vote favorite
share [g+] share [fb]

I posted this over at stack overflow, but had a suggestion to post it here for better help. Currently, I am running Mint Linux (Release 9). I need to downgrade Java from version 1.6 to 1.5, and have been trying to figure out how to go about this. So far, I've had no luck. The package manager doesn't seem to have it.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, - Chris

link|improve this question
Hae a look at How to downgrade JRE's version in ubuntu? – Sathya♦ Jun 15 '10 at 20:25
1  
that other question may be helpful but i doubt it's the exact answer -- it's unlikely the main repositories with have both Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 packages available. that means installing Java 1.5 at all will need to go outside the normal package manager in some way. the procedure in this answer should work, if you can still grab a java-1.5-for-linux tarball from Sun: superuser.com/questions/146648/… – quack quixote Jun 16 '10 at 3:38
feedback

Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard

Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.