Eclipse with Sun Java

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:18:19 -0400
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> 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.  

[snip]

> > 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.

Ah, that makes a difference. Thanks Derek, I didn't know about that bug.

Peter
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