Removing all traces of GNU java and openjdk and replacing with Sun JDK

Question

I have installed latest Sun JDk. But when I do:

java -version

I still got OpenJDK version. So I completely removed OpenJDK. But now when I do:

java -version

I get even older GNU java 1.5 something libgcj. So I completely removed that too but it was asking to remove bunch of dependent apps like OpenOffice.org Writer etc. Even though I need the writer, I let it go because I do not want ever to see the face of any GNU java on my linux. So everything related to GNU java is removed. Luckily I am able to start Eclipse and it works fine and start normally (apparently using the installed Sun JDK which is what I want). But now when I run

java -version

I get bash: /usr/bin/java: No such file or directory

Now what I need to do so that when I open any terminal window and enter java -version I should get Sun JDK version? Sun JDK is installed in /usr/java/jdk1.6.021. I also have symlinks: /usr/java/latest and /usr/java/defaults pointing to sun jdk.

As suggested in the answer, I tried the alternatives command but it did nothing. I type the --display, nothing is shown, and --config does nothing.

Answer 1

You dont have to remove anything. On most Linux distros you can switch the java runtime environment. On fedora it is with alternatives.

To show which one is used:

alternatives --display java

To configure which one is used:

alternatives --config java

Answer 2

on Debian 5.0.8 (lenny), i just used:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun