Well I have gone through all of the FAQ's and used the search tool but I could not find the answer to this question.
Can I delete the old update files from my hard drive? I am up to update 11 and I would like to clean out some old files I don't need any more.
If this is possible it sure would have been nice if you added a line in the Read Me file to say that the old files can be deleted.
- Do you mean JDK5.0 Update 1 ?
If so, you should be able to get rid of the older versions, whichever is not being used. For instance, let us say you had installed jdkunpate5 and installed tomcat server at that time. If you now remove jdkupdate5, then tomcat server would not run.
In general, the jdk installations are independant of each other and can be uninstalled if not needed; you do have to ensure that a given version is not being used by any other application, before getting rid of it.
- If you mean NetBeans+jdk , then you should be able to safely uninstall the previous versions.
You should be able to delete the previous versions and keep only the latest; that should work just fine.
If possible, you should delete/uninstall them via control panel. That would tell you if there is any dependancy at all on a given jre version by some other program.
Even if some program currently on your system (say tomcat server) relies on a previous jre version and you find it out later, the situation should be correctable. Most programs would either pick up jdk/jre from the path or will jave some configuration file which can be edited to point to a different jdk.
