[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TOOLSDOC-287) Alternatives command needs a priority number to work

Alternatives command needs a priority number to work ---------------------------------------------------- Key: TOOLSDOC-287 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TOOLSDOC-287 Project: Documentation for JBoss Tools and Developer Studio Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Getting Started Guide Environment: Fedora 17 x86_64 Reporter: Michelle Murray Assignee: Isaac Rooskov About: JBDS Getting Started Guide 5.0.1. The second Note in 3.1.1 gives information about using the alternatives command to add JDK. Issue: These instructions did not work for me using alternatives version 1.3.59. I made the assumption that each sudo command should be input separately so perhaps this is where I went wrong. The use of the given commands, with jdk1.6.0_24 changed for update 37, resulted in the instructions for using the alternatives commands being output on the command line as below: {noformat}[mmurray@dhcp-0-244 ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_37/bin/java" alternatives version 1.3.59 - Copyright (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc. This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. usage: alternatives --install <link> <name> <path> <priority> [--initscript <service>] [--slave <link> <name> <path>]* alternatives --remove <name> <path> alternatives --auto <name> alternatives --config <name> alternatives --display <name> alternatives --set <name> <path> common options: --verbose --test --help --usage --version --altdir <directory> --admindir <directory>{noformat} Workaround: To get the instructions to work, I added a priority number to the end of each 'alternatives install' command as per the alternatives man page. For example, {noformat}sudo alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_37/bin/java" 2000{noformat} {noformat}sudo alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_37/bin/javac" 2000{noformat} {noformat}sudo alternatives --install "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0" "java_sdk_1.6.0" "/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_37" 2000{noformat} I was unsure what number to pick for the priority and randomly put 2000. I ran each sudo command separately. Also, it appears that the quotation marks are not necessary in the command.