elinor writes:

I am using sles10 but am required to use a java version that is not provided as an rpm from any suse source. I installed jdk1.5.0_14 which I downloaded from Sun (using their installer). The problem is choosing it as the default java. As far as I can tell, update-alternatives requires that I use one installed from a SuSE blessed rpm. Does anyone know of any documentation that might address this issue? We can't use our Novell support because we aren't using a Novell supported java. Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the direction of documentation or knows the answer to this. Thanks.

The openSUSE Build Service has a lot of prebuild packages (use http://software.opensuse.org/search) also for SLES10. I don't know whether any Java version is available but it's always good to check there first. Alternatively: Have a look at an openSUSE 10.2 or 10.3 Java 1.5 source package, it should show you what needs to be done, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

On Monday 03 March 2008 21:40:25 elinor wrote:

I am using sles10 but am required to use a java version that is not provided as an rpm from any suse source. I installed jdk1.5.0_14 which I downloaded from Sun (using their installer).

And what about installing the rpm from 10.1? I suppose, thats the better solution and 10.1 is still supported and worked with update-alternatives support. And there's also a possibility to rebuild the package from src.rpm, if there would be any troubles with rpm.

The problem is choosing it as the default java. As far as I can tell, update-alternatives requires that I use one installed from a SuSE blessed rpm. Does anyone know of any documentation that might address this issue?

No no update-alternatives is not a suse specific tool. In fact it was ported from Debian. For documentation you should take a look to http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.en.html part 11.10 But you should read and use a post install scripts in src.rpm for sun's Java, because there's a lot to do. The simple example (don't use this, there are a lot of --slaves symlinks in this command, see the post install script): update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java $JAVA_DIR/bin/java 1514 $JAVA_DIR contains a path to your java 1514 is necessary for automatic symlinks handling due update, the value of this number is not important. Just use a java version (15) and update number (14). The just type update-alternatives --config java to manuall switch the JVM to local one. After that, the future updates will newer modify your settings.

We can't use our Novell support because we aren't using a Novell supported java. Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the direction of documentation or knows the answer to this. Thanks. Elinro

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