On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 20:21, Daniel Hedlund wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:09, Charles Layno wrote: > > Is there a rpm that is wasier to install JAVA than what is on the Sun site? > > Do you want the SDK (software development kit) or the JRE (java runtime > environment)? > > Java Runtime Environment (13MB) > http://ftp.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java/sun/JRE-1.4.2_01/linux/j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin > > Java Software Development Kit (33 MB) > http://ftp.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java/sun/JRE-1.4.2_01/linux/j2sdk-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin > > Here's what you do (assuming java runtime, replace with SDK if desired): > 1. download the rpm.bin > 2. chmod +x j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin > 3 ./j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin > 4. agree to their user agreement after you read it > 5. rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm > > The following are for the Mozilla java plugin: > 6. ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ > 7. ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 > /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins/ > > The following is for the Mozilla Firebird browser plugin: > 8. ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 > /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/plugins/ > > There are some other things you also need to do which I don't remember > off the top of my head, such as adding /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01 to your > path, adding man page entries, etc. ---- since you did such a bang up job... edit a new file... /etc/profile.d/java.sh insert into this file... JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01 PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export JAVA_HOME PATH then close the file and type... source /etc/profile.d/java.sh The next time you launch Mozilla - java should be fully functional Craig
