java/firefox works but "which java" returns nothing
Perry
pwhite at bluewin.ch
Fri Dec 25 19:09:58 UTC 2009
Le Friday 25 December 2009 17:46:00 Jonas Norlander, vous avez écrit (you
wrote) :
> 2009/12/25 Perry <pwhite at bluewin.ch>:
> > There must be a proper way to let the system know where java resides,
> > less messing again with symlinks. Perhaps something like
> > update-alternatives --set (or --install?) but I'm unsure which and unsure
> > about the proper syntax.
> >
> > Anyone has advice on this?
>
> I think what you look for is update-java-alternatives
>
> / Jonas
Thanks for quick answer,
but that is "unknown command". Did you mean
update-alternatives --config java ?
I know the big picture of what needs to be done but details are lacking and I
would prefer not to experiment blindly.
1) java has to be on the path, reasonably in /usr/bin (...I dont believe I
shooed add /user/java/jre1.6.0_17/bin/)
2) this "java" is a link pointing to /etc/alternatives/java
3) the latter is also a link which *I belove I shouldn't tamper with*, it has
to be set "by carefully collaborating programs" which possibly also write the
"java" text file in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/java (guessing from reading man
update-alternatives)
In the previous mail I described a four line way to get java and Firefox to
work together.
>installed java jre1.6.0_17 from sun (bin auto extractable) in /usr/java
>(no other java installed)
>libjavaplugin_oji.so is in: /usr/java/jre1.6.0_17/plugin/i386/ns7
>made symlink to it in: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
That's a tremendous improvement to the pages I discussed a couple of months
ago in the thread: Jaunty, Java and map24
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2009-August/045614.html> and
I have a clearer idea of why some results were apparently erratic.
Obviously Sun's instructions on how to install java lack an important point.
I will experiment some more and report.
Cheers Perry
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