[CentOS] Oracle java RPM

Sat Sep 5 12:16:34 UTC 2015
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Sep 4, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> I've been using the Oracle RPMs.  From what I can tell they restrict
> their writes to /usr/java (plus making symlinks in /usr/bin).

Does it use the ‘alternatives’ system for the symlinks in /usr/bin?  You can check quickly by looking at where the symlink /usr/bin/java points to, if it points directly to the java executable, then it isn’t using ‘alternatives’.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>