On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote:

I've installed java-1.6.0-openjdk (from EPEL) on a CentOS 5.2 x86_64 system and see that it has not registered itself with alternatives.

First, is there a reason I should know about that it does not set itself up as an alternative?

But second, if I was to configure it myself, the syntax is

alternatives --install link name path priority ... and other optional stuff

Looking at other examples, I'm not clear on the difference between link and path in this command

Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College

Sorry to follow up to myself

rpm -q --scripts java-1.6.0-openjdk

actually shows it has commands to install itself in alternatives, but it didn't happen. I ran the commands by hand and got the error

link /usr/share/javaws incorrect for slave javaws (/usr/bin/javaws javaws)

that's why it didn't install. I can remove the part about javaws from the script and it works. Will investigate why that at some point.

Tony