Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _Michael B Allen_, on 07/08/04 21:24,typed:
> Andreas Janssen said:
>
> > You should go to <http://z42.de/debian/>. Get j2se-package, convert your
> > JRE to a deb, download the matching *debian-deb for your Java version,
> > and install both the downloaded package and the converted JRE. The
> > package management will take care of the symlinks in /etc/alternatives
> > and even install symlinks to make the Java plugin work with Mozilla,
> > Netscape and Firefox. You should probably deinstall the gjc packages
> > first.
>
>
> Bah. You can't be serious. Why would anyone be expected to go through this
> procedure just to install Java? Why not just unpack the sun.com archive in
> /usr/local/ and export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java and
> PATH=$PATH:${JAVA_HOME}/bin?
>
> Mike

This is what I did. I extracted the version of the Java in 
/usr/local/java. Then made links
/usr/local/j2sdk -> /usr/local/java/java-version-dir

and put
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk/bin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk

in /etc/profile

So, to install new version I just extract in /usr/local/java and change 
the symlink /usr/local/j2sdk and all is fine and rosy.


Works pretty nicely.

->HS