<div>On 5/3/07, John L Fjellstad <<a href="mailto:john-ubuntu@fjellstad.org">john-ubuntu@fjellstad.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ghodmode <<a href="mailto:ghodmode@ghodmode.com">ghodmode@ghodmode.com</a>> writes: > When you have found the right one, just make sure it's the first one > available in your path. I think you'll find that the one in the path is a > symbolic link. So, you just need to change where that symbolic link points > to. You don't want to change the manually. You want to use the alternative system to change it. The alternative system (using update-alternatives) will not only change the binary of the one you asking for, but also the manual pages and associated files. So, for Java, it will not just point /usr/bin/java to the version you want, but it will also update the javac, jar etc links, but also the associated manual pages to those files</blockquote><div> I didn't know about the alternatives system. I changed all of those links manually. I see from Scott's example how to update it to point at a package. How would I do it for a JDK that I installed manually? Thanks, Vince </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- John L. Fjellstad web: <a href="http://www.fjellstad.org/"> http://www.fjellstad.org/</a> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>