java on RH AS 3.0?

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at Weiss.name
Wed Sep 8 12:25:58 UTC 2004


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Daniel Rubin wrote:

> Hi,
> I have Redhat AS 3.0, and on this machine, java doesn't appear to be installed properly:
> /usr/bin/javac is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/javac, which is a
> symlink to /usr/share/java/libgcj-java-placeholder.sh 
> And, when I do a java -version, I get:
>  
> libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
>  
> This script is a placeholder for the /usr/bin/java and /usr/bin/javac
> master links required by jpackage.org conventions.  libgcj's
> rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools are now slave symlinks to these
> masters, and are managed by the alternatives(8) system.
>  
> This change was necessary because the rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools
> installed by previous versions of libgcj conflicted with symlinks
> installed by jpackage.org JVM packages.
>  
> I tried installing the java rpm, but that didn't solve this. Any suggestions?
> 
I had a similar issue recently, and I had to install Java from Sun's 
website: 

http://java.sun.com

Is that the rpm that you installed?

Ben





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