How to use update-java-alternatives with a local installation of the JDK?

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Published on 2012-07-04T14:49:06Z Indexed on 2012/07/04 15:23 UTC
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I have Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 installed on my machine, on the previous versions of Ubuntu it was deadly easy, now there is this command update-java-alternatives with a really bad man page.

I just have my JDK unpacked on a mounted partition like /media/mydisk/jdk, how i can force the use of that JDK instead of the one that comes in the Ubuntu repository?

What is the logic behind this update-java-alternatives ?

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