Hey, ho-- So I used java-config to switch the user's (my) Java VM from blackdown to Sun (blackdown is only 1.4.2 but Azureus prefers 1.5). I don't want to change the whole system VM (because I'm a big chicken).
But anyway, when I switch VMs with java-config, I get this message: $ java-config -s sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.03 Env files in /home/motub/.gentoo updated. Source these in your shell's profile. Am I the only one who doesn't know quite what to do at this point? I did figure it out, but I don't find this message at all clear, since the only 'source' I've done up to this point is 'source /etc/profile', which is of course not available to me as a user. So fine, I read the message again, and so tried $ source ~/.gentoo which (unsurprisingly, when you think about it): -bash: source: /home/motub/.gentoo: is a directory Fine, so then I do $ source ~/.gentoo/* and then I was able to get $ java-config -f sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.03 (And now Azureus opens the Configuration tab without crashing, yay!) But I know I was just lucky. I was making this up/guessing wildly as I went along. That command worked, but I don't even know if that's "right" (the asterisk). I suppose the source command sensibly only sourced the "source-able" files in that folder, but I don't know which ones they were, what needed to change, or if everything that needed to change in fact did. An export shows that PATH and JAVA_HOME variables are right (they point to Sun Java), but the JAVAC and JDK_HOME variables still point to blackdown. Is this a problem? I don't know (and I don't like that :-) ). Have I done this correctly? Should I have known how to do this (source files for a user, rather than root/system-wide) after installation (for all my time with Gentoo, I haven't really learned all that many system commands that fall outside the scope of installation routines)? Was there a way to 'intuit' this from the message? This whole ~/.gentoo folder seems new to me. Or should I submit a bug against java-config to request that this message be a bit more specific in its instruction? Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
