Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[John D Lamb <J.D.Lamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
> 
> What is the "canonical" way to switch back and forth between 1.4 and 1.5 
> in SUSE 9.3?  surely not by editing all the symlinks 
> in /etc/alternatives, or by uninstalling and reinstalling one or the 
> other every time you want to switch?
> 

Perhaps the easist way would be to open a konsole and run

$ export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun/bin/:$PATH

each time you specifically want to use java 1.4.2. You could even put
this in a shell script. Alternatively, instead of

$ java app

use

$ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun/bin/java app

and you'll get the 1.4.2 version.

Compiling should be more straightforward if you use the -target flag.

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JDL