Hello, <br><br>I'm running Fedora 10 and recently installed the Sun Java JDK 6_13 using the alternatives command.<br>It works fine, including the plugin, but I really don't get the synchronization process as discussed in the manual. If I issue the command <br>
$ alternatives --display java<br>I see that there is a list of 'slaves' associated with the group 'java' already present. These slaves are java commands and manpages.<br>I assume that I should also have included these slaves, but didn't.<br>
So the first question I have is how can you add slaves afterwards?<br>I tried a number of ways but wasn't able to unless I removed it and reinstalled it.<br>Also, even though this worked for slaves that were commands, it didn't work for the manpages.<br>
For example, <br>$ alternatives (etc.) --slaves /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz java.1.gz /opt/java/man/man1/java.1 does not work.<br><br>I'm not even sure if I understand this correctly, but I can't find any good documentation on the alternative system.<br>
<br>Afterwards there was a message that stated the group was now in manual mode instead of automatic.<br>Basically my take is that when it's in automatic mode, then if you switch to the other version using the command<br>
$ alternative --config <br>All the other slaves will switch associated with the group will switch over as well.<br>Now that it is in manual mode, do I have to switch each slave myself? How?<br><br><br>