On Tuesday 31 December 2002 00:28, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:08:57AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > | which java tells me that my java is installed in /usr/bin/java while I > | installed my 1.4.1 JRE in /opt/java.sun. > | And java -version tells me that my version of java is 1.1.8 . Apparently, > | I have two versions of java installed on this machine. How can I > | explicitly point bash to use the 1.4.1 one instead of the 1.1.8 one? > > You have a few choices : > . use the absolute path
This is currently working, although it is a pain, but it works. > . set up PATH so that the desired one is found first I did that in /etc/profile (That's where you setup path isn't it? ), but with no success. > . create appropriate symlinks good idea, but messy I believe. > . remove 1.1.8. It's too old anyways. apt-get remove java didn't work. Have to figure out the name of the package. > . use 'update-alternatives' to manage the existing symlinks > (this is what I recommend, after you install the java package) "update-alternatives --auto java" didn't do a thing, although it didn't give me an error message either. How about making an alias in .bachrc ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
