[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#990534: arduino: Arduino-IDE not starting witch Cinnamon Desktop.

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Sven,

please use Reply All so the BTS and all participants will get involved
into the message flow.

Am 05.07.21 um 21:35 schrieb Sven Wagner:
> Hi folks,
> 
>> Sven, you could please check where /u/b/java is pointing to? It should
>> look like this.
> 
>> $ ls -la /usr/bin/java
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 19. Jun 2017  /usr/bin/java ->
> /etc/alternatives/java
>> $ ls -la /etc/alternatives/java
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43  8. Nov 2018  /etc/alternatives/java ->
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
> 
> my result is:
> 
> ls -la /etc/alternatives/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46  2. Jun 14:52 /etc/alternatives/java ->
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java*
> 
> So I tried reinstall of everything with openjdk-11 with
> 
> apt install --reinstall openjdk-11*
> 
> After this, the same result that /etc/alternatives/java is still
> pointing to 8 and not 11. So I did
> apt purge openjdk-8-jre-headless
> and now, everything is running fine again. I still do not understand
> where this openjdk-8 is coming from, but I am investigating.
> Thanks for all your help!

I expecting something like this, at least that somehow openjdk-8 was the
root of this problem.
We need to narrow down if openjdk-8-jre is really the problem and how to
ensure users have also installed openjdk-11-jre to get Arduino IDE working.

-- 
Regards
Carsten