You can have all jdk versions within /usr if you just download the tar-files without installer.
After unpacking move it to /usr/java/jdk or wherever you like. After that alter/set the following in the .profile of every user: PATH JAVA_HOME JDK_HOME And point them to the java version they need. Solaris 10's updateprogram and some orhers relied on java 1.5 and i spend days on searching why it stopped working after i updated to java 1.6... Kind regards, The out-side Op 20 dec. 2012 om 14:58 heeft Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> het volgende geschreven: > On 2012-12-20 11:53, Andrew Myers wrote: >> Thanks Richard for your advice. This seems to have worked. > Also note that some programs (esp. system-bundled ones in Sun Solaris) > can rely on particular definition of JAVA_HOME env.var pointing to a > directory. Valid definition for the standard directory structure is > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java > which you update by updating the /usr/jdk/latest symlink. > > Keep track of JVM customizations you might put in place, to redo them > upon upgrades (tzupdate, private CA certificates, etc.) > > However, as with any software, some versions are better compatible > than others due to some intimacy between JVM and compiled programs, > so certain programs might require older JVM to stay around in the > path they expect to use (or reconfigure their path from default to > particular for such programs). > > Finally, to help me install JDK from tarballs/selfextractors I have > packaged the Sun-standard dirs and symlinks to precreate the needed > structure. I attach a SVR4 for Solaris and a RPM for RHEL/CentOS. > In particular, this sticks needed symlinks to current installation > into /usr/bin. Feel free to use or integrate anyplace :) > > A typical installation procedure looks like this: > > :; gzcat $DOWNLOAD_DIR/COSjavadirs-1.6.0-1.pkg.gz > /tmp/x > :; pkgadd -d /tmp/x > :; cd /usr/jdk/instances > :; $DOWNLOAD_DIR/jdk-6u37-solaris-i586.sh > :; $DOWNLOAD_DIR/jdk-6u37-solaris-x64.sh > :; rm -f jdk1.6.0 && ln -s `ls -1d jdk1.6.0_* | tail -1` jdk1.6.0 > > (likewise for jdk1.7.*) > > In this structure, /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0 points to the latest > jdk1.6.0_* installation, and /usr/jdk/latest statically points to > ./instances/jdk1.6.0 (in our conservative case), and /usr/java points > to ./jdk/latest, and /usr/bin/java and an horde of other programs > point to ../java/bin/java etc. > > HTH, > //Jim Klimov > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
