openSuSE 11 - multiple java versions

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Hi,

I just upgraded to openSuSE 11 and I’ve been having some problems when trying to install multiple java versions/architectures.

In 10.3 I used to have 4 different flavors of java (1.5 32bit/64bit, 1.6 32bit/64bit) and I was able to switch between them with update-alternatives.

Now it seems that I cannot install both 32 and 64 bit variants of the same version. The packages have the same name and the system seems to be unable to distinguish i586 from x86_64 and it gives back a “package already installed” error.

Apart from the obvious “install 1.5/32bit and 1.6/64bit or vice versa” is there any workaround to get back the functionality (and flexibility) of 10.3 on the issue??

Thanks in advance,

Tom.

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Wouldn’t you be able to use the version tab to install another one?

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True but this will replace the 64/32bit package with the 32/64bit package. I want to have both (if possible)…

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install, for example, 64-bit java from repos and 32-bit form here