Using Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at home

Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Fri Jan 21 22:27:47 UTC 2005


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Speaking of RHEL and clones, does anyone understand the
> symlink-to-symlink scheme is supposed to work for programs
> that have alternatives?  For example, is there a canned way
> to install the Sun JVM and get the right thing in /usr/bin/java
> and /usr/bin/javac?  It looks like there is some kind of
> plan for this but I haven't found any documentation.

You just make change to links in /etc/alternatives directory to point to 
the right stuff.  Not sure if there's tool for doing it.  And not really 
sure if it might get overwritten on package update (don't think it should).

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