Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 21:37, Kornelis Sietsma wrote:
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
> >What is up with the insane tangle of symlinks that makes up
> > jpackage??! I remember how easy it used to be just to change the
> > link /usr/lib/java and everything would be good.  I don't find any
> > documentation on how to do this anymore.

> On my system to completely switch I update "java", "javac",
> "java_sdk_sun" and "jre_sun" (I'm not totally clear on what the last
> two do by the way :)

The problem is that there are so many symlinks in /etc/alternatives 
(jar, appletviewer, rmic, keytool, javaws, javadoc, etc. etc.).  I wish 
there were a way to switch them all over in one go.

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