Re: Trying Java

[Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se>]

Daniel Mashao <daniel@vitasat.ee.uct.ac.za> writes:

[...]

> Everytime I run javac I get no error messages and nothing works. I trioed
> to see what javac was and was suprised to see a lot of "meaningless" links
> 
> /usr/bin/javac -> /etc/alternatives/javac
> /etc/alternatives/javac -> /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/javac
> /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/javac -> .java_wrapper

There is a purpose with /etc/alternatives. You choose which
alternative you want if many exist. Lets say you later upgrades to
jdk1.2, then you just change (or dpkg will do it for you) the
/etc/alternatives/javac or you can within the blink of an eye switch
between jdk1.2 or jdk1.1 - or some other java distribution (kaffe?) by
moving the symlink.

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