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rated 0 times [  72] [ 0]  / answers: 1 / hits: 71615  / 3 Years ago, thu, august 19, 2021, 10:21:58

Is there a way to quickly switch over all the Java related alternatives using update-alternatives?



For instance, if want to switch Java over to 7, I run sudo update-alternatives --config java and select the Java 7 OpenJdk. But if I run update-alternatives --get-selections | grep java I get the following,



appletviewer                   auto     /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/appletviewer
extcheck auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/extcheck
idlj auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/idlj
itweb-settings auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/itweb-settings
jar auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jar
jarsigner auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jarsigner
java manual /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
javac auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac
javadoc auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/javadoc
javah auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/javah
javap auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/javap
javaws auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws
jconsole auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jconsole
jdb auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jdb
jexec auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jexec
jhat auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jhat
jinfo auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jinfo
jmap auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jmap
jps auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jps
jrunscript auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jrunscript
jsadebugd auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jsadebugd
jstack auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jstack
jstat auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jstat
jstatd auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/jstatd
keytool auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/keytool
native2ascii auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/native2ascii
orbd auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/orbd
pack200 auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/pack200
policytool auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/policytool
rmic auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/rmic
rmid auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/rmid
rmiregistry auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/rmiregistry
schemagen auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/schemagen
serialver auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/serialver
servertool auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/servertool
tnameserv auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/tnameserv
unpack200 auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/unpack200
wsgen auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/wsgen
wsimport auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/wsimport
xjc auto /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/xjc


As you can see, my Java alternative was switched over to 7, but every other alternative based on OpenJDK 6 was not switched over. Sure I could switch each one manually or write a script to do so, but I assume there is a better way to accomplish this.


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The trick is to use update-java-alternatives (from the java-common package).



So to go for OpenJDK 6 to 7, I used update-java-alternatives -l to get a list of Java alternatives and then used sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 to the JDK.



NOTE: The command above threw the following errors,



update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla-javaplugin.so.
update-java-alternatives: plugin alternative does not exist: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so


This is because the openjdk plugin is not installed by default. To fix run



sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin


and rerun update-java-alternatives.


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