Eclipse with Sun Java

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:55:08 -0600
> Kenneth Loafman <kenneth at loafman.com> wrote:
> 
>> OK, that got me to synaptic which has the 'aptitude show' function built
>> in much like a preview window.  What I did after that is check the box
>> for eclipse, found out what it wanted to install (all were -gcj), then
>> cleared that and added the packages manually (non -gcj) that the
>> original eclipse install would have done.
>> 
>> All is good.  No -gcj on the system at all.
> 
> I think you could have saved yourself some time and trouble by simply
> installing the sun java packages, then running
> 
> sudo update-alternatives --config java
> 
> and choosing the sun option.

Only if they've fixed eclipse.  There was a bug out there a while back, that
the eclipse developers seemed reluctant to fix, that eclipse would ignore
update-alternatives and use it's own (odd) search path.  I didn't get any
notification that the bug was closed, so I would expect it isn't.
-- 
derek