On 03/22/2014 11:18 AM, Joseph Areeda wrote:
>
> On 03/22/2014 09:17 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> On 03/22/2014 07:44 AM, 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.
>> Do you have java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel installed?  That is where jar lives.
>>
> Hi Orion,
>
> My problem is not running jar, but rather switching between different JDK's.
> I have OpenJDK 6 and 7 and Oracle's 6 and 7 and use
>
> update-alternatives --config java
>
> to switch between them for testing.  Unfortunately I can't seem to convince
> everybody to use my favorite JDK ;-)
>

If you still want to use alternatives, jar is tied as a slave to the "javac" 
config, so:

update-alternatives --config javac



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