Re: UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry, but I don't get it: Why do they use the Gnu Java instead of the openJDK? Fedora installs OpenJDK by default.. Hetz On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:34 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu users: a random update tonight changed the link in /etc/alternatives from sun

Re: UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:34:40AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: Ubuntu users: a random update tonight changed the link in /etc/ alternatives You should not update this link directly. Use update-alternatives. Some alternative links are grouped together. For instance: $

Re: UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Sorry, but I don't get it: Why do they use the Gnu Java instead of the openJDK? Fedora installs OpenJDK by default.. I did not get it either. One minute I'm happily running Sun's JRE at the 1.6 level and the next, a link was changed and

Re: UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:35:44PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Sorry, but I don't get it: Why do they use the Gnu Java instead of the openJDK? Fedora installs OpenJDK by default.. I did not get it either. One minute I'm happily

UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Ubuntu users: a random update tonight changed the link in /etc/ alternatives from sun java (1.6) to a gnu java (1.5) breaking every Java app I had. /usr/bin/java is linked to /etc/alternatives/java which should be linked to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.16/jre/bin/java This occurred on