Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Jakobsen wrote:
>
<snip>
> I use Firefox
>
> Erik

Erik,

        What does the follow show when pasted into the command line? (need not 
be root):

/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display java

        If you have more than one version, then for setting the default JRE, 
call (--
as root --) the following command:

update-alternatives --config java

        The output will show you what you have and allow you to configure the 
default.
You will see something like this:

[03:13 alchemy:/usr/lib64/jvm] # update-alternatives --config java

There are 3 alternatives which provide `java'.

  Selection    Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
          1    /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java
          2    /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
*+        3    /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:

        Also, do *not* forget the java plugin! The default Java plugin is called
javaplugin (for Sun's Java) and a libjavaplugin.so.[arch] for
icedtea7/openjdk6. For a change of default plugin, you should type:

update-alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so.x86_64

or for Sun's

update-alternatives --config javaplugin

        For some sites, I have only been able to get openjdk to work. Other's 
suns
javaplugin works.

        If you need more info, see man update-alternatives (then you can get 
really
confused ;-)

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