On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 8:50 pm, erylon hines wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2003 05:26 am, you wrote: > > Erylon - the rpm that Tom recommended has screwed up my system as regards > > java. I think the links and path are wrong. Can you please list the > > files that I may need to check/edit? > > > > Thanks > > > > Anne > > I've never used that rpm, so I defer to Tom on that. I can speculate that > the rpm didn't remake the java link to the moz plugin directory, though (I > am assuming you only use java for your web browsers. Other than for that, > most people don't even need java). If you know where the rpm made the java > directory, you can manually re-make the link correctly. As an aside, I've > found that #ln -s /usr/javaplugindirectory/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when done globally, can cause the plugin > directory to be hosed when mozilla is upgraded, forcing a delete and > re-install of moz. This is a minor irritation, and its probably a good > idea to delete the old mozilla first anyway--just my experience ymmv. > > If you don't actually need a jvm on your machine for running a 3rd party > program, Kaffee is o.k. to keep. Do a #java -version and > see if you still get a return for Kaffee. If you get a return for Sun's > java, the rpm did re-make the $PATH. If not, it didn't, so that's not the > problem. If you get a "no java found" type error, then there is no java in > your path and you'll have to find where it is and add it. > > A #which java normally points to /usr/bin/java. This may or may not be > correct for you, depending on the behavior of the rpm (I again defer to > Tom). I've removed Kaffee and with it the /usr/bin/java, so the path to the > new /java_directory/bin/java may need to be added. > > I know this isn't much help, but the problem must be identified before it > can be corrected. I repeat, I haven't used that rpm (I'm a tarball kinda > guy), so I do not know its behavior. > > e.
Thanks - it gives me a few more pointers to explore. Anne
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