Re: alternatives with ad hoc installation

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:04:37 -0600, ChadDavis wrote:

> I'm installing, by hand, a java7 distribution that doesn't exist in the
> repositories.  Is it feasible to use the alternatives mechanism to work
> with ad hoc installations like this?  In other words, I've "installed"
> the java 7 jdk into /usr/local/jdk1.7.0.

(...)

I'd say yes, because this is how it has been done since always so I see 
no compelling reasons for this has stopped from working now.

But if you look for a confirmation of someone who did that before, I'm 
not that person, maybe Google can help:

http://alexander.holbreich.org/2011/11/java-7-on-debian/

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón