On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, hansel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in
> /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment
> variables are correct, do I avoid crashes (or silent errors) -- to the best
> of more experienced SL users' knowledge, of course?
>
> Some of what I do depends on Java version 1.8 andI need to do something. (On
> other distos, I would just do it (and did with Ubuntu), but SL7 docs carry
> strong warnings about introducting conflicts.)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Mark Hansel
> Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
> Minnesota State University Moorhead
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Why would you want to? openjdk-1.8.0 is available directly as part of
RHEL and Scientific Linux, with source code,  Installing either
jdk-1.8.0 or opndk-1.8.0 can be done along with openjdk-1.7.0, And it
does *not* replace /usr/bin/java, so you can activate it on an
application by application basis by using the symlinks in
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0, or /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0 for javac.