On Friday 17 March 2006 11:03 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Davis wrote: > Hello. > > I have a problem with the PATH. I'm fairly familiar with the tradional > linux / unix roles for the various start up scripts, but I'm not getting > the behaviour that I expect. First of all, I'm running Ubuntu with Gnome. > I manually installed java in /opt/jdk1.5xxx The system had a free version > of java installed via APT. (I'm a bit of newbie when it comes to the > packaging system ). It appears that the APT process pretty much puts > everything into the typical, old school bins. These are the predefined > path. So, the APt installed free version of java is found on the > unmodified path, in /usr/local/bin or something. I need to have my version > of Java be found prior to that free one. ( I think if I understood the > packaging system there would be a more "debian" way of handling this, but > I'm not too hip to all of that ). > > My solution is to set the system wide path settings to include the bin > directory of my own java installation. PErhaps not the best way. Please > inform me of better solutions if you have them. I first tried adding this > PATH change to /etc/profile, and then to /etc/bash.bashrc. When I did > these things, the PATH changes were ONLY REFLECTED IN LOGIN SHELLS or, in > the case of the bashrc, terminal shells fired up from with in Gnome. The > problem is that when I try to launch the app that needs the new path > changes ( Eclipse won't run on the free java ?) from a Gnome launcher ( > desktop icon ), the PATH changes don't seem to be in effect. SO . . . why > don't the PATH changes effected by /etc/profile count when running > somehting from Gnome direclty? Perhaps this is a gnome issue?
see the posting by "Jan T. Kim" with the subject "Re: login, path and ~/.profile" in this ML dated 09/30/05. what i have on my system for java is that: /usr/bin/java is a sym link to /etc/alternatives/java /etc/alternatives/java is a symlink to /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/bin/java if you want a different 'default' java implementation, change the /etc/alternatives/java symlink to point to a different executable. but then i've always just stuck with sun's jvm. haven't really juggled multiple jvms. > > > Chad -- anoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
