I recently found some issues with the openjdk Ubuntu/Debian default Java implementation. Specifically I had issues with their web start support (javaws). I found that the Sun implementation of Java did not have such a deficiency and the Sun implementation is available through the regular Ubuntu/Debian package sources. I installed the Sun implementation and wanted [...]
If you want to remove all packages which are in the “rc” state (means that the package was already removed but only it’s configuration remained) you can use the following command as administrator: dpkg –purge `dpkg –list | grep “^rc” | tr -s ” ” | cut -d ” ” -f 2` Take care to [...]