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Procedure for upgrading Java on Default Amazon Linux AMI (2012.09)
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# You can also follow the procedure at https://gist.github.com/tankchintan/1335220
# You can update to OpenJDK 1.7 with AMI 2012.09. See release notes http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2012.09-release-notes/
#First install OpenJDK 1.7
sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk
# Check that 1.7 is installed and choose it
>sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
#- Choose option for jre-1.7(For me it was option 2)
2
#Verify that current vesion is 1.7
java -version
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