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 > > Use the java-package package along with the .bin file from Sun (or whoever) to produce a .deb that you can install with `dpkg -i <file>.deb` http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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