Re: [gentoo-user] java eselect

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@gmail.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"