On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, hansel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in > /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment > variables are correct, do I avoid crashes (or silent errors) -- to the best > of more experienced SL users' knowledge, of course? > > Some of what I do depends on Java version 1.8 andI need to do something. (On > other distos, I would just do it (and did with Ubuntu), but SL7 docs carry > strong warnings about introducting conflicts.) > > Thank you. > > Mark Hansel > Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice > Minnesota State University Moorhead > [email protected] > [email protected]
Why would you want to? openjdk-1.8.0 is available directly as part of RHEL and Scientific Linux, with source code, Installing either jdk-1.8.0 or opndk-1.8.0 can be done along with openjdk-1.7.0, And it does *not* replace /usr/bin/java, so you can activate it on an application by application basis by using the symlinks in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0, or /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0 for javac.
