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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