installing ant, java won't run

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
>
> This script is a placeholder for the /usr/bin/java
> master link required by jpackage.org conventions.  libgcj's
> rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools are now slave symlinks to these
> masters, and are managed by the alternatives(8) system.
>
> This change was necessary because the rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools
> installed by previous versions of libgcj conflicted with symlinks
> installed by jpackage.org JVM packages.
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher
>    at gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
>    at _Jv_ThreadRun(java.lang.Thread) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
>    at _Jv_RunMain(java.lang.Class, byte const, int, byte const, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
>    at __gcj_personality_v0 (/disk2/people/hennebry/work/silk/ant.home=/usr/share/ant)
>    at __libc_start_main (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.3.so)
>    at _Jv_RegisterClasses (/disk2/people/hennebry/work/silk/ant.home=/usr/share/ant)

I get that same result trying to run java directly.
If I uninstall ant will java run again?

> Arrrg.
> Now what do I do?

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