openjdk-7-jdk has a dependency on openjdk-6-jre that it shouldn't. This results in openjdk-6-jre being installed with all of the "jre" alternatives set to openjdk-6-jre instead of openjdk-7-jdk like you'd expect from an installation of openjdk-7-jdk on a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 system.
If you run the following, you can see that both versions of openjdk are listed as java alternatives: # update-java-alternatives --list java-1.6.0-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 1051 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 If you run the following, it will update all of your alternatives to use java-7-openjdk: sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 But you will now see two other bugs: 1) There is no icedtea7-plugin in 11.10. openjdk-7-jdk installs icedtea-plugin, but this is the openjdk6 version. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/+bug/905714 2) The .jinfo file incorrectly has -javaplugin.so instead of mozilla-javaplugin.so https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/966212 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901758 Title: Mixed Java command versions after installing openjdk-7-jdk Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a new Oneiric i386 machine I ran 'apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk'. This machine had no Java installed previously. Installing this package required installing openjdk-6-jdk, as well as the -jre for both versions 6 & 7. After the install was complete I was left with this awful result... # java -version java version "1.6.0_23" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b23~pre11-0ubuntu1.11.10) OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode, sharing) # javac -version javac 1.7.0_147 Thats right, my javac command uses JDK7 but my java command uses JRE6. Looking in /etc/alternatives for symlinks to Java-related executables, i see 13 links to Java6 programs, and 28 links to Java7 programs. Here is the alternatives information for 'java' command # update-alternatives --display java java - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java - priority 1051 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java'. And the same for the 'javac' command # update-alternatives --display javac javac - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/javac - priority 1051 slave javac.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/man/man1/javac.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/javac'. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/901758/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
