For some reason Eclipse 3.4.2 I installed is always picking up the 1.6 JDK and bombing out even though I have 1.4.2 installed. How do I make Eclipse point to the 1.4.2 version I have? I see there is an eclipse.conf file and perhaps that’s where I make the setting? And which setting should I put there?
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Not sure about the right way, but since I have multiple installs of
Eclipse (for different purposes) I have an init script for each in my
~/bin directory (named something appropriate so when I Alt+F2 they
auto-complete in an intuitive way for me) and those scripts look like the
following:
<quote>
export JAVA_HOME=/home/ab/apps/purpose0/jdk1.5.0_22/jre
export JAVA_ROOT=${JAVA_HOME}
export JAVA_BINDIR=${JAVA_HOME}/bin
export PATH=${JAVA_BINDIR}:${PATH}
cd /home/ab/apps/purpose0/eclipse
/home/ab/apps/purpose0/eclipse/eclipse
</quote>
Good luck.
On 04/21/2011 08:06 PM, imterpsfan2 wrote:
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> For some reason Eclipse 3.4.2 I installed is always picking up the 1.6
> JDK and bombing out even though I have 1.4.2 installed. How do I make
> Eclipse point to the 1.4.2 version I have? I see there is an
> eclipse.conf file and perhaps that’s where I make the setting? And which
> setting should I put there?
>
>
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I found there’s a vm switch in the eclipse.config that might work. Otherwise, I’ll try your solution.
Use the update-alternatives subsystem.
How to point environ var to JDK?
Problem: Sun JDK, not JRE
HTH,
Tony
I used the -vm switch in the /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini file to point to the correct jre that I wanted. This seems to work for me. Thanks for the other suggestions. I’ll keep these in mind.
I’m going through an old java book that’s using an old jdk, jre.