update-alternatives --config java

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon Aug 27 04:13:22 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 04:41 +0100, Wulfy wrote:
> alternatives system only works for those in the "standard" place, which 
> may have changed since the 1.4 package was built.

1.4 is in /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/bin/java - as installed via Synaptic. I
suppose I could move it and jigger around with the update-alyternatives
control files, might be fun :-)

> Any package will be somewhat behind the bleeding edge that you could 
> have from installing from Sun.  It's just the way things work, I think.

Hm, we are LONG way behind the "bleeding edge".

Anyway, thanks heaps for your help.

Regards, K.

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