I just installed Fedora 17. I'm setting up the Android Build Environment and need Java. I downloaded and installed jdk-6u32-linux-amd64.rpm I ran java -version and it spit out the correct version. Well a day or two later i tried my first compile in Fedora 17 and it complained about java and failed. I ran java -version again and low and behold it spits out $ java -version java version "1.7.0_03-icedtea" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-2.1.fc17.7-x86_64) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode) I'm stumped. I mean, i've run the update/upgrade commands since i installed but i didn't think that updated full version revisions... So, I ran alternatives --config java and that only gave me the java 1.7 version. While digging around more I discovered that the recommended version of Java for the build environment is jdk-6u27-linux-x64-rpm.bin so I downloaded that from here: Oracle Download When I ran: sudo sh jdk-6u27-linux-x64-rpm.bin it returned: Unpacking... Checksumming... Extracting... UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP ([email protected]). inflating: jdk-6u27-linux-amd64.rpm inflating: sun-javadb-common-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm inflating: sun-javadb-core-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm inflating: sun-javadb-client-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm inflating: sun-javadb-demo-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm inflating: sun-javadb-docs-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm inflating: sun-javadb-javadoc-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package jdk-2000:1.6.0_32-fcs.x86_64 (which is newer than jdk-2000:1.6.0_27-fcs.x86_64) is already installed Done. so now I'm confused. I ran: alternatives --config java again but it's still only returning 1.7 so I don't know what to do.I want to end up with 6u27 as the installed and functional version of the JDK. Thank you.