Thanks Eric, it's obviously been handled correctly on your system but not on mine for some reason.
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --list javaws This gives no output on my system. But the javaws executable is located in the right spot: ls -l /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/jre/javaws/javaws -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1100 2005-10-11 09:19 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/jre/javaws/javaws Symlinks were created for java,javac,javadoc,etc, looks like everything but javaws was handled properly. This was with java-package 0.24. Do you have any suggestions why the symlinks for javaws would be created on your system but not on mine? Many thanks, Dave On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would tend to disagree: > > $ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --list javaws > /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/bin/javaws > /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/jre/javaws/javaws > $ ll /usr/bin/javaws > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2005-06-02 09:29 /usr/bin/javaws -> > /etc/alternatives/javaws > $ ll /etc/alternatives/javaws > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2006-02-25 18:06 /etc/alternatives/javaws -> > /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/jre/javaws/javaws > > Eric > > > Hi, > > I don't think java-package installs symlinks in /usr/bin > > or /etc/alternatives for javaws (web start). Just wanted to check with > > you before submitting a bug report, is this the case? > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pkg-java-maintainers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers

