Re: [opensuse] openSuSE11.1 and JVM, will not run applets (SOLVED)

> Patrick Shanahan skrev:
> > * Verner Kjærsgaard  [08-10-09 18:31]:
> >> I just got a call from one of my friends (whom I consulted earlier on
> >> this matter) saying:
> >> "Remember also to fix /etc/alternatives/javaplugin." This symlink should
> >> also point in the right direction. My javaplugin symlink was pointing to
> >> some IcedTea, it now points to the SUN java directory. And everything is
> >> now working.
> >> Q: If it had only been written somewhere...CHECK YOUR SYMLINKS IN
> >> /etc/alternatives/!
> >> I hope my answer gets picked up by the search engines in order to help
> >> others :-)
> > Well, you are shot-gunning and that is "not good".  There is an app for
> > setting java, update-alternatives, and *much* has been written.  Have
> > you search on opensuse.org?
> > You remind me of a friend who is getting along in years, even more than
> > me.  If something on his windoz machine doesn't start as quickly as he
> > thinks it should, he clicks on it six or seven more times, and then
> > cannot understand the problems that ensue.  But he is only 89 :^).
> - I apologize for my hot headed behaviour...
> - I actually thought "there must be a more correct way..." instead of
> hand-fixing all these symlinks in /etc/alternatives which was quite
> frustrating - in part also because I didn't understand it fully. Or was
> afraid that I didn't.
> This application "update-alternatives" is a gem!
> I only knew that I had known of it. I tried running it with
> "update-alternatives --config java" and it appears to agree with my
> (manually done) settings.
> After your advice I did search the openSusE and sure enough, there is a
> fine explanation. If I had followed it, it would have worked in the
> first shot.
> I hope the search engines find *this* entry :-)

Don't feel too bad;  I've been down the same road myself a couple of
times to end up at the "update-alternatives" solution; which controls
the default MTA, Java version, PHP version, XUL version, FTP client, VI
version, etc...  A powerful little piece of the sys-admin toolbox.  

There are numerous of these gems that never seem to get any prime-time
air-time despite the fact it would be a better use of Internet bandwidth
then yet more Shuttleworth-comments-about-XYZ or
oh-my-was-Linux-rude-to-someone bilge articles.

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