MacosX Java Update to 6 (JDK 6)

Recently, I had a problem with the version of JDK on my system. The MacosX (Leopard) has the 1.5 as the default install. It actually download the update but does not activate it. Anyway, from Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences, you can organize the order of the Java installations however this would not unless the you break the links :
sudo rm System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK
sudo ln -s 1.6 System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK

Stay tuned.

Macports and Fink

Recently I came by two very useful tools for MacOSX : Macports and Fink. Macports enables to port many open source applications to MacOSX very safely. It checks the dependencies and installs them when needed. It also supports updates for the installed packages. Fink is a package manager with a nice interface. It is useful to see the state of the installed software.

Macports is available at : http://www.macports.org
Fink : www.finkproject.org/