Re: [gentoo-user] java eselect

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Friday 10 June 2011, András Csányi 
did opine thusly:

> On 10 June 2011 20:41, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@×××××.com>
wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I would like to use netbeans to programming in java language. I can't
> >> start netbeans because "Cannot find java...". I thought, no problem
> >> because here is the fantastic eselect tool and I'm going to set up the
> >> java environment on my machine. But, I made a mistake. On my machine
> >> only sun-jdk-1.6.0.26 is installed and I set up this to system-vm. By
> >> the way, the system-vm is not accessible for user, only for root. On
> >> one hand, after this I tried to delete or disable the system-vm but I
> >> didn't find any option for this in eselect. On the other hand, to use
> >> the same java-vm as system-vm and as user-vm is not possible because
> >> the eselect not able to do this setup.
> >>
> >> Here is my question:
> >> - how can I change to user-vm a system-vm when I have only one
> >> installed java-vm which is set up as system-vm?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help in advance!
> >
> > Maybe use java-config instead of eselect. Something like "java-config -s
> > 1"
>
> java-config is not appropriate.
>
> sa-home sayusi # java-config-2 -L
> The following VMs are available for generation-2:
> *)      Sun JDK 1.6.0.26 [sun-jdk-1.6]
>
> sa-home sayusi # java-config-2 -s sun-jdk-1.6
> !!! ERROR: The user 'root' should always use the System VM
>
> sa-home sayusi # java-config -s sun-jdk-1.6
> !!! ERROR: The user 'root' should always use the System VM
> sa-home sayusi #

That is incorrect.

java-config is quite appropriate. Using it to try and set a user vm for root 
is not, as the output clearly shows.

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