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807599Nov 14 2006 — edited Nov 16 2006

I recently installed Fedora 6 on my machine which comes with Java 1.4.2. I downloaded Java SE 5.0 from the JavaSoft web site and installed it using RPM. The install seemed to go fine.

However, when I enter the command "java -version" the response indicates Java version 1.4.2. Is there a way to get the OS to use the new version of Java (5.0) when I'm compiling and running Java programs?

Additionally, I was able to re-direct Eclipse to point to Java SE 5.0 using the Preferences menu and updating the "Installed JREs" item.

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