I worry thatmultiple copies of java are wasting space on my hard drive.
Several programs seem to have installed jre: Oracle, Matlab, SPSS, SPlus, etc.
As a result I now have 14 separate copies ot rt.jar on my hard drive.
Q: Don't I need only ONE copy of java?
> I worry that multiple copies of java are
> wasting space on my hard drive.
>
> veral programs seem to have installed jre: Oracle,
> Matlab, SPSS, SPlus, etc.
My Oracle directory is 3 gig.
The jdk dir in it is 35 meg.
So it is 100th of the size of the Oracle dir.
If you are concerned that you are running out of space I would suggest that you buy another hard drive, compress it, or un-install something.
Removing pieces of installed apps probably isn't the way to do it and will likely break something. And break in such a way that you might not notice it for months.
