JDK Upgrade wohs

JDK Upgrade wohs

Post by Ron Ols » Thu, 23 Apr 1998 04:00:00




> In RH 5.0 I was running jdk1.1.3.  I installed it via a tar.gz and not rpm.  I
> since then retrieved jdk1.1.5-5.i386.rpm and first off all remove jdk1.1.3
> and rpm -ivh jdk1.1.5-5.i386.rpm.  It looks as if it installs alright.
> However, when I run java -version or the likes I get "java not found in
> /usr/bin/jdk1.1.5/../bin/i586/green_threads"  when I run javac I get
> "libjava.so no found in /usr/bin/jdk1.1.5/....i586/green_threads".

> What's up?  Is there anything special I need to do when doing the rpm install?
> Or is my best bet just to revert back to jdk1.1.3 that I had?

I ran into the same problem.  There's a bug in
/usr/lib/jdk-1.1.5/.java_wrapper; it doesn't set JAVA_HOME properly.  Here's a
patch:

*** .java_wrapper.orig  Mon Apr 20 13:48:47 1998
--- .java_wrapper       Mon Apr 20 13:54:38 1998
***************
*** 64,69 ****
--- 64,70 ----
      JAVA_HOME=$J_HOME
  fi

+ JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk-1.1.5
  #
  # For some programs like appletviewer, it is important that "." not be
  # in the classpath by default (unless the user set the CLASSPATH

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        Ron Olsen