Re: PATH issues

[Dexter <dexter@madalbal.sk>]

maybe you can try to make symbolic link of directory with java to
directory, where it should be

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 10:03 -0700, chadmichael@excite.com 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?  
> 
> 
> Chad 
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