JAVA Upgrade Question

[risk_reversal]

Hi guys, I was gonna upgrade my JAVA (JRE) engine to a later version.

I was wondering whether I should remove the older JAVA version first and then install the newer version or whether the upgrade is done by installing the newer version over the top of the older one.

Many thanks for your help

[Insomniac]

Why can't you just upgrade via the program itself?

There is an applet in Control Pane.

[risk_reversal]

Many thanks for your reply Insomniac. Never been too keen on upgrading 'live' so to speak, which is what I guess the upgrade via the program does.

Much prefer to 'save to disk' and then upgrade. Is this not possible ??

Many thanks

[theefool]

As far as I know, this is the "latest and greatest".

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4648

[ONEEYEMAN]

risk_reversal,
When you trying to upgrade JAVA, the newer version won't install itself on top of the old one. It will install in parallel.

Therefore you _should_ uninstall the old version first and then install the upgrade, as, when running 2 version, you might get some problems.

Thank you.

[hrlow2]

Use JavaRa to remove old version.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/JavaRA_d5982.html

[star17]

Originally Posted by ONEEYEMAN

risk_reversal,
When you trying to upgrade JAVA, the newer version won't install itself on top of the old one. It will install in parallel.

Therefore you _should_ uninstall the old version first and then install the upgrade, as, when running 2 version, you might get some problems.

Thank you.

You do realize you replied in a thread from 2006?

[hrlow2]

My "eagle" eyes didn't see that either. Just responded following OneEyeMan's lead.
See what you caused me to do?
How many pages did you go back to find that?

[tritonobx]

It's ok to install old version over existing version, not necessary to remove old version first. If you later find an older version in add/remove you may remove the old one there. If you find remnants of older version in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner or All Users\Application Data\Sun\Java you may safely delete the file(s) there. You may opt to remove old version first, then install latest version. This is for XP, others will be similar. The new version download is often available from web sources earlier than from the Java updater.

[Major Attitude]

Not sure who closed this, people do not see dates when they Google, so the date should not be considered relevant, nor should this have been closed. All moderators take note.