Thanks to xa and Nico

Joe

On 03/23/2014 05:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:00 PM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Saturday 22 March 2014 06:44:19 Joseph Areeda wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> My immediate problem is that the utility "jar" is not in my path and
>>> update-alternatives --config java does not set up the symbolic link.  I
>>> currently have /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java selected.
>>> This is as installed.
>>>
>>> In my reading I can see a way to set up a new alternative by installing
>>> all the utilities as slaves.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to just add jar and a few other utilities to the existing
>>> alternative?
> You may have to rethink this. If you want to consistently use a
> consistent Java release for a particular package, you can get in
> trouble changing the "alternatives" settings for *all* system software
> the way you've been doing. In particular, it will be reset
> automatically when you RPM update any of your Java core packages.
>
> If you need a particular bundle, strongly consider setting "JAVA_HOME"
> for the relevant user or the rlelevant software configuratoin to point
> to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/  or similar locations, and
> set PATH to include /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin first.