[RESOLVED]Re: JRE

[John Dangler]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 05:51 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> You know what's funny; I tried the update-alternatives and found two
> versions that I didn't want on my system (they were installed as
> dependencies as I was testing out programs), deleted those and now
> running java -version from anywhere just works! 8-) 
> 
> <grin>  Doing tech support can help more than just other people it
> seems ;)
That's also a possibility.  I'm trying to find a database modeling tool,
as well as an application framework for my desktop box at the moment, so
I've probably got some orphans out there as well...
I seem to recall seeing some utility or other that would go through
ubuntu and identify all of those, but I can't recall where I read it...
(I should have grabbed it while I was reading about it)
> 
> CK
> 
> On 2/16/07, John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
>         Thanks Conrad, Janne, and Tony!
>         I was missing the update-alternatives... 
>         Now I have:
>         gymsmoke at croatus:~$ which java
>         /usr/bin/java
>         gymsmoke at croatus:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
>         lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-02-10 03:15 /usr/bin/java
>         -> /etc/alternatives/java
>         gymsmoke at croatus :~$ java -version
>         java version "1.5.0_08"
>         Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
>         1.5.0_08-b03)
>         Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode,
>         sharing)
>         
>         
>         
>         On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 02:36 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: 
>         > On 2/16/07, John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
>         >
>         > > Sorry, I did mean 1.5 .  But I don't see 1.5 in any of the
>         responses you
>         > > listed... 
>         > >
>         > > So, why, if I have the java 5 jre and the java 5 plugin
>         installed, does
>         > > the java --version report 1.4.2 ?
>         >
>         > I can't fully test my hypothesis since I'm running Feisty,
>         but in 
>         > Feisty using Java 6 the CLI command "java" isn't in a
>         standard place
>         > for the system to see it... so maybe you have *both* 1.5 and
>         1.4
>         > installed, but Java 5 doesn't have a "java" binary in the
>         right place? 
>         >
>         > On my system, if I go to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin and
>         from
>         > Terminal run "./java -version", the output is:
>         >
>         > java version "1.6.0"
>         > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
>         > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode,
>         sharing)
>         >
>         > Do you maybe have a similar directory with a "java"
>         executable?
>         >
>         > CK
>         >
>         
>         
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