On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 15:57 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: [snip] > Then "/usr/bin/java" will be the Sun JRE, and all your apps should use > it by default. [snip] My goal was to use Sun's JRE for the apps that won't work with java-1.4.2-gcj (admittedly so far 100%). Silvain's tip does exactly that so I've used it. Nevertheless thanks for your answer. If I want to totally switch over to Sun's JRE I will definitely use your advice. Regards, Patrick