[Coco] Drivewire on an original Raspberry Pi

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On Fri, 2022-02-04 at 10:37 -0600, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 08:55:11 +0800
> Walter ZAMBOTTI <zambotti at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > And in order to get DriveWire4 to run you will need to use Java
> > version 6 (1.6).
> > 
> > I tried version 7 and later but it didn't work.
> > 
> > The code for SWT 4.2.3.4 indicates it was written for Java 4 (1.4)
> > but that is very difficult to source.
> > 
> > Installing multiple versions of Java is fine and I modified the
> > DW4UI.sh script to use the correct version by changing :
> > 
> > java -jar DW4UI.jar
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6/bin/java -jar DW4UI.jar
> > 
> > Walter
> > 
> [...]
> 
>     Unfortch, apt-get on the Pi says that there is no candidate to
> install Java-6. 'It may have been removed.'  All we need is someone
> to
> find the Raspbian deb file for java-6. You can install from a local
> file, but, I don't remember the incantation off hand. If anyone
> installed it with 'apt-get' the deb file may still be in
> /var/cache/apt/archive/.
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
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Since Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Rasbian) is based off Debian, someone
running debian should be able to get Java-6 if it is included in the
debian repository I would think.
Kip Koon