Manuel Wolfshant wrote on 06/03/2011 03:31 PM: ... > - took advantage of the fact that jre creates a symlink named "latest": > > [wolfy at wolfy ~]$ ll /usr/java/ > total 4 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Mar 2 12:17 default -> /usr/java/latest > drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 4096 Mar 2 12:18 jre1.6.0_23 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 21 Mar 2 12:17 latest -> > /usr/java/jre1.6.0_23 > > which can make upgrading much easier, as future versions of jre will > update the symlink but this will not require tweaking the alternatives > links. Good addition! Phil