Astrostack

[Tommy Trussell]

On 8/23/06, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> < snip >
>
> > will help with the process. Just make sure that, after you install the
> > sun JVM, run:
> >
> > $ sudo update-alternatives --config java
> >
> > to set the sun JVM as the system default JVM.
> >
> > If the program still doesn't work with the sun JVM, then something
> > deeper is amiss.
>
> I did as suggested, selected 4 and got the following:-
>
> norman at gruber:~/Desktop/AstroStack3LE $ update-alternatives --config
> java
>
> There are 4 alternatives which provide `java'.
>
>   Selection    Alternative
> -----------------------------------------------
>       1        /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.0
>       2        /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.1
> *+    3        /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java
>       4        /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java
>
> Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 4
> Using `/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java' to provide `java'.
> update-alternatives: unable to make /etc/alternatives/java.dpkg-tmp a
> symlink to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java: Permission denied
> norman at gruber:~/Desktop/AstroStack3LE $
>
> What have I done wrong?

you left off the sudo command.