maybe you can try to make symbolic link of directory with java to directory, where it should be
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 10:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Davis wrote: > Hello. > > I have a problem with the PATH. I'm fairly familiar with the > tradional linux / unix roles for the various start up scripts, but I'm > not getting the behaviour that I expect. First of all, I'm running > Ubuntu with Gnome. I manually installed java in /opt/jdk1.5xxx The > system had a free version of java installed via APT. (I'm a bit of > newbie when it comes to the packaging system ). It appears that the > APT process pretty much puts everything into the typical, old school > bins. These are the predefined path. So, the APt installed free > version of java is found on the unmodified path, in /usr/local/bin or > something. I need to have my version of Java be found prior to that > free one. ( I think if I understood the packaging system there would > be a more "debian" way of handling this, but I'm not too hip to all of > that ). > > My solution is to set the system wide path settings to include the bin > directory of my own java installation. PErhaps not the best way. > Please inform me of better solutions if you have them. I first tried > adding this PATH change to /etc/profile, and then to /etc/bash.bashrc. > When I did these things, the PATH changes were ONLY REFLECTED IN LOGIN > SHELLS or, in the case of the bashrc, terminal shells fired up from > with in Gnome. The problem is that when I try to launch the app that > needs the new path changes ( Eclipse won't run on the free java ?) > from a Gnome launcher ( desktop icon ), the PATH changes don't seem to > be in effect. SO . . . why don't the PATH changes effected > by /etc/profile count when running somehting from Gnome direclty? > Perhaps this is a gnome issue? > > > Chad > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
