Clint Dilks wrote: > Hi People > > I have been following the instructions here > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS but trying to modify them > for jdk-6u7-linux-amd64.rpm but there doesn't see to be a compatible > java-1.6.0-sun-compat-*.rpm. Does one exist ? > > If not can anyone point me to some documentation on how I can manually > set up things so alternatives will work allowing multiple Java versions. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > As a follow up to this I have removed the link /usr/bin/java and done /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 1 the one downside to this is that it doesn't give a indication of what version it is. Am I better to use the binaary installs and then configure alternatives ?