java 1.4.2 vs 1.5
 

Hi all, I am runninng LimeWire under Fedora Core 4. Java 1.5 is installed:

but java 1.4.2 is also installed (probably by FC2) and seems to take precedence in the path, even though I have tried to configure this otherwise with sbin/alternatives. As such, when I run LimeWire from the Gnome menu, it launches with 1.4.2 and crashes frequently, whereas if I run

it runs with 1.5 without problems. Anyone know how to fix things so it always runs with 1.5?

Uninstalling the old java would probably be the easiest thing...

What does 'which java' say? What does 'echo $PATH' say? There should be an entry in there for 1.5.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by limewire
Uninstalling the old java would probably be the easiest thing...

$ which java
/usr/bin/java

$echo $PATH
/opt/jre1.5.0_04/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/opt/jre1.5.0_04/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/colin/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/colin/bin

Grrrr, I don't know where these redundancies are coming from...

Why is /opt/jre1.5.0_04/bin in your path if /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/bin/java is what you need (according to your first post)? Change that and you should be set /usr/bin/java is probably a link to 1.4. The redundancy is probably because you have similar entries in /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile or similar.

I am having trouble determing who or what is adding this to my path: /opt/jre1.5.0_04/bin

I don't see it in either ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile

Is there anything else that could set it?

Either ~/.bashrc or an init script in /etc/init.d is all I can think of...

To be failsafe you'll want to edit the gui/run script (after each upgrade) as follows:

#!/bin/sh -
set -a
cd /.../limewire/gui
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java
PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

CLASSPATH=...
PATH=${PATH}:../lib/native
java ...

Replacing the (...) with your installation's path.