On 20 May 2016 6:47 p.m., "Patrick Dupre" <pdupre@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> OK,
>
> Thank.
>
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> > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 7:38 PM
> > From: "Rick Stevens" <ricks@alldigital.com>
> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Subject: Re: jre
> >
> > On 05/20/2016 10:21 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > >
> > > OK,
> > >
> > > but it seems that it also needs
> > > javaw
> > > which is not provided.
> > > Is it javawriter ?
> >
> > I suspect you have a version of your program that's for Windows. javaw
> > doesn't exist in Linux--only in Java for Windows. In the Windows world,
> > java opens a console window while javaw does not.
> >
> > You might try doing a symlink and see if it works:
> >
> >       $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/javaw
> >
> > No guarantees on if that'll, though.
> >

That's not accurate

The javaw stuff is nothing to do with Windows but rather is the Java webstart stuff for running jnlp

That's provided by icedtea-web and will use whichever java is configured via alternatives as the system java