installation of crucible

[richard bradwell]

I want to evaluate the latest version of crucible however we only have boxes with openjdk 1.6.  I believe java 1.7 is required for the latest version.  Any suggestions on the best way to install it with minimal disruption?

[Piotr Swiecicki]

Hi Richard,

If you are asking how to upgrade JRE on your machine or install newer version in different location, this is really Operating System specific.  Let me know what OS/distribution you are using so I can try providing some help.

Crucible stopped supporting Java 6 mostly because it reached its end of life in February 2013, see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.  You can still trying to run evaluation on older Crucible version which still supported Java 6.  Or give it a try with the most recent one - although Java 6 is no longer supported there is still good chance it would run correctly.  Bear in mind this is not supported configuration though.  Personally I would strongly encourage to upgrade Java ASAP, having no security patches for it since February 2013 means you run a risk of having your system compromised.

Kind regards,
Piotr