Note: This version of the VDT (1.8.1) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.8.1s Update

On 2008-12-18, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1s.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1s

All three JDKs (JDK-1.4, JDK-1.5, and JDK-1.6) were updated to 1.4.2-19, 1.5.0-17 and 1.6.0-11 respectively. These updates include a security fix. (VDT ticket 4559)

Updating to VDT 1.8.1s

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1s was released on 2008-12-18, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1s.

The best way to do the update is to update the individual packages that have changed. To be clear, we do not recommend using pacman -update without specifying specific package names. Also note that you only need to update packages if you installed them. You can see what packages have been installed with:

pacman -lc

Common update directions

Before you do the update directions that follow, please run the following commands. They apply for all of the updates.

cd $VDT_LOCATION
. setup.sh
vdt-control --off
cp -pr $VDT_LOCATION BACKUP-LOCATION

The copy command makes a complete backup of your VDT installation, in case something goes wrong. Do not skip this step!

1. Updating Java

To update JDK-1.4:
Do this step if and only if your installation includes the JDK 1.4 package (look for the $VDT_LOCATION/jdk1.4 directory).

pacman -update JDK-1.4

To update JDK-1.5:
Do this step if and only if your installation includes the JDK 1.5 package (look for the $VDT_LOCATION/jdk1.5 directory).

pacman -update JDK-1.5

To update JDK-1.6:
Do this step if and only if your installation includes the JDK 1.6 package (look for the $VDT_LOCATION/jdk1.6 directory).

pacman -update JDK-1.6