[ubuntu-za] Installing Java on 8.04 LTS

[Alf Stockton]

Louis van der Merwe wrote:
> 
>     .....snip..... 
> 
> Hi Alf,
> 
> Due to sun's license on java, linux distributions ship with a GNU 
> version of java (gcj).
> under /etc/alternatives, you will find symbolic links pointing some of 
> the java components (java, javac, jar, ect ...)
> to gcj. You installed sun-java correctly, but you're missing a step.
> 
> after running apt-get install sun-java5-bin, you need to update your 
> java alternatives (/etc/alternatives).
> You need to use a tool called update-java-alternatives.
> 
> run `update-java-alternatives -l` to get a list of all the java versions 
> installed.
> 
The above gave me:-
update-java-alternatives -l
java-1.5.0-sun 53 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun

> then run `update-java-alternatives {java-version}` to relink to the 
> correct java installation
and this gave me:-
root at general:~# update-java-alternatives -s java-1.5.0-sun
No alternatives for appletviewer.
No alternatives for apt.
No alternatives for extcheck.
No alternatives for idlj.
No alternatives for jar.
No alternatives for jarsigner.
No alternatives for javac.
No alternatives for javadoc.
No alternatives for javah.
No alternatives for javap.
No alternatives for jconsole.
No alternatives for jdb.
No alternatives for jinfo.
No alternatives for jmap.
No alternatives for jps.
No alternatives for jsadebugd.
No alternatives for jstack.
No alternatives for jstat.
No alternatives for jstatd.
No alternatives for native2ascii.
No alternatives for rmic.
No alternatives for serialver.
No alternatives for xulrunner-addons-javaplugin.so.
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/appletviewer
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/apt
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/extcheck
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/idlj
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jarsigner
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jar
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/javac
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/javadoc
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/javah
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/javap
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jconsole
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jdb
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jinfo
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jmap
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jps
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jsadebugd
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jstack
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jstatd
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/jstat
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/native2ascii
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/rmic
update-java-alternatives: jdk alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/serialver
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java' to provide 'java'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/keytool' to provide 'keytool'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/orbd' to provide 'orbd'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/pack200' to provide 'pack200'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/policytool' to provide 'policytool'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/rmid' to provide 'rmid'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/rmiregistry' to provide 'rmiregistry'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/servertool' to provide 'servertool'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/tnameserv' to provide 'tnameserv'.
Using '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/unpack200' to provide 'unpack200'.
update-java-alternatives: plugin alternative does not exist: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/plugin/amd64/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

> 
> `which jar` should now point to the jar binary for java 5
>
and which jar still retrieves nothing.....:-(

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Regards,
Alf Stockton		www.stockton.co.za

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