[CentOS] Upgrading Java on CentOS 4.5

Thu Oct 18 18:40:21 UTC 2007
Antonio da Silva Martins Junior <asmartins at uem.br>

----- "Scott Moseman" <scmoseman at gmail.com> escreveu:
> # rpm -qa | grep -E '^(java|jdk|jre)-'
> jre-1.6.0_03-fcs
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-27jpp
> jdk-1.6.0_03-fcs
> 
> java is a CentOS package.  jdk and jre are from Sun.
> (I need Java >= 1.5.0 for an application I'm installing.)
> 
> # update-alternatives --config java
> 
> There are 1 programs which provide 'java'.
> 
>   Selection    Command
> -----------------------------------------------
> *+ 1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
> 
> But how do I tell my system to use the 1.6.0 version?
> Is there a step that I'm missing to finish the upgrading?

Hi Scott,

  Take a look on http://www.jpackage.org

  On that repo are RPMs to change the alternatives, and docs on howto
install it.

     Antonio.

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