[25985] in Athena Bugs

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Re: linux 9.3.11: /usr/bin/java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Aug 24 18:44:03 2004

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:42:27 -0400
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From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25984] in Athena Bugs"
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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> Unfortunately, using the alternatives system requires that
> we have actual files to point the /usr/bin/java and
> /usr/bin/javac symlinks at.  The cluster machines have a local
> version of java, but do not have a local version of javac.

That's because we only install the j2re package from Sun; we could
install their j2sdk package, which contains both the development and
runtime environments.

Bob

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