[Live-demo] Where should JAVA_HOME be set (if overriding default=openjdk 1.7)?

[edgar.soldin at web.de]

np...

does the osgeo live-dvd set a JAVA_HOME env var? if yes where? the switcher would have to change it.

..ede

On 15.01.2012 20:59, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Edgar,
> Thank you very much, if this works, (which I assume it does), it will be very useful.
> 
> Would you mind also including a script: install_java_switcher.sh, which would create java_switcher.desktop and update the suders file. I suggest that switch.sh would be easier to recognise if called java_switcher.sh.
> Please also add a Copyright header, like all the other scripts, so that we know the author (yourself) has given us rights to use this script with OSGeo.
> The scripts should be put into trunk/bin in the osgeo svn directory.
> 
> If you can add the scripts to svn, then I'll test them.
> 
> FYI, the current directory structure on osgeo live is:
> 
> user at osgeo-live:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm
> total 8
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 2011-08-25 19:50 java-6-sun -> java-6-sun-1.6.0.26
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 2011-08-25 19:51 java-6-sun-1.6.0.26
> drwxr-xr-x 10  500  500 4096 2011-06-27 03:02 jdk1.7.0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 15/01/12 01:17, edgar.soldin at web.de <mailto:edgar.soldin at web.de> wrote:
>> find attached a proof of concept. for testing purposes i switched between openjdk6/7.
>>
>> it needs an entry in /etc/sudoers
>> user   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/user/switch.sh
>>
>> attached files go to
>> /home/user/switch.sh
>> /home/user/Desktop/java.desktop
>>
>> hamish probably has some idea where to place which file.
>>
>> ..ede
>>
>>
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