Re: [opensuse] Wrong symlink /etc/alternatives/java after apply security updates (openSUSE 10.3)



rschwedler wrote:
On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:18:19 pm Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 21:52 +0200, Raúl Moratalla wrote:
Hi,

I have installed (using rpms) in my openSUSE 10.3 Java 1.5 and Java 1.6.
Yesterday I installed using openSUSE updater two security fixes for Java
1.5 and 1.6.

Before doing this, symlink /etc/alternatives/java was pointing to the
path of Java 1.6 but after applying the security updates it didn't point
to the new version of Java 1.6, it still pointed to the old path.

We've been discussing this in the spanish mailing list and seems that
more people have the same problem. Is this a bug?
I would say so as I have the same problem with the symlinks pointing to
the wrong area.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998



I had the same problem. I just created a symlink to the new java.

Bob Schwedler
I had the same problem - eventually, after much googling and ogling, I found that /usr/sbin/update-alternatives is our friend - and if you do not have it, you can acquire it by installing the update-alternatives RPM.

--
--Moby

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin


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