Problem w/ setting Sun's JVM via (g)alternatives?

[Marcelo M. Garcia]

On 08/27/2009 06:20 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Since I am trying to get Eclipse's Ganemede working
> again, I am told that I would need to use Sun's JRE,
> however, I opted to use the JDK instead of the JRE.
>
> I have downloaded and installed Sun's JDK 1.6 & 1.5
> into /opt and it looks good. I can via environment
> setting run the java -version tests.
>
> However
>
> I have added the /opt/jdk[...]/bin/java to the alternatives
> list in the 'java' category for both versions as follows:
>
> /opt/jdk.1.6[...]/bin/java priority: 1000
> /opt/jdk.1.5[...]/bin/java priority: 500
>
> then selected JDK v1.6, and tried to launch Eclipse.
>
> What resulted was a popup failure with the
> relevant entry:
>
> [...]
> -vm /opt/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
> [...]
> Note: the entire "barf" is at the end of the line.
>
> Why is 'java' replaced with '../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so'?
> Yes, the -vm path exist.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> Side question: is the JRE instead of JDK required? I wanted
> the JDK so that I can do Java development but I do not think
> there is a difference except only where the jre path is different.
>
> Thanks-
> Dan
>
> The "barf":
> ===========================================
> JVM terminated. Exit code=-1
> -Xms40m
> -Xmx512m
> -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init>
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/dom/parser/cpp/semantics/CPPTemplates,instantiateTemplate
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/pdom/dom/cpp/PDOMCPPLinkage,addBinding
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/revisited/PythonPathHelper,isValidSourceFile
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/ui/filetypes/FileTypesPreferencesPage,getDottedValidSourceFiles
>
> -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/usr/share/eclipse/dropins
>
> -Djava.class.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar
>
> -os linux
> -ws gtk
> -arch x86
> -showsplash
> /usr/lib/eclipse//plugins/org.fedoraproject.ide.platform_3.4.2/splash.bmp
> -launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
> -name Eclipse
> --launcher.library
> /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.101.R34x_v20080805/eclipse_1116.so
>
> -startup
> /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar
>
> -vm /opt/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
> -vmargs
> -Xms40m
> -Xmx512m
> -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init>
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/dom/parser/cpp/semantics/CPPTemplates,instantiateTemplate
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/pdom/dom/cpp/PDOMCPPLinkage,addBinding
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/revisited/PythonPathHelper,isValidSourceFile
>
> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/ui/filetypes/FileTypesPreferencesPage,getDottedValidSourceFiles
>
> -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/usr/share/eclipse/dropins
>
> -Djava.class.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar
>
> ===========================================
>
Hi

I installed the JDK-1.6u16 in my F-11, and I used the following commands:
alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/java 2
alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac 
/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/javac 2
alternatives --config java
alternatives --config javac

It seems that you are forgetting the 'config' part of 'alternatives'.

I use this CentOS wiki as reference:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox

Regards

mg.