Dear James,

Nice, thanks

Ok so without googling any my next question is how does one get on software
to run one version of java and another software another version ?

thanks
ram

On 6 July 2015 at 09:39, James Sebastian <[email protected]> wrote:

> Instead you can point to Java version you want at /etc/alternatives/java.
> The file is a symbolic linkl pointing to the java we need.
>
> for eg:
> james@james-ubuntu14:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 14  2014 /usr/bin/java ->
> /etc/alternatives/java
>
> james@james-ubuntu14:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Nov 29  2014 /etc/alternatives/java ->
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java
>
> so if you delete the link /etc/alternatives/java and recreate with new
> path using ln -s you can use any of the multiple java versions you have
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
> On 23 June 2015 at 20:31, Rohit Bhute <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It is 'update-alternatives' in Debian based systems.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Rohit Bhute
>>
>> On Tuesday 23 June 2015 08:27 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> will try it out and see what happens
>>>
>>> there seems to be no tool called alternatives
>>>
>>>
>>>
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