--- Jim Higson <jh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 03 Dec 2004 12:33, Hardy Merrill wrote: > > --- Jim Higson <jh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Friday 03 Dec 2004 12:24, Hardy Merrill > wrote: > > > > My goal last night was to get JEdit installed > and > > > > working. > > > > > > > > This required Java, so I tried a few different > > > > > > ways to > > > > > > > install Java. First I downloaded Sun's JRE SE > > > > > > 1.4.2. > > > > > > > The install seemed to go fine, but in the end > I > > > > > > would > > > > > > > get an error when trying to run JEdit - sorry, > I > > > > > > don't > > > > > > > have the text of the error to copy/paste in. > > > > > > > > Then I went to fedorafaq.org and found > > > > > > instructions > > > > > > > for installing Java via yum, so I did > > > > > > > > yum install j2re > > > > > > > > which installed j2re from "dag" since I have a > dag > > > > repo defined. But still when I try to run > jedit I > > > > > > get > > > > > > > an error. > > > > > > Which is...? > > > > Sorry, like I said I'm not on that FC3 machine now > so > > I don't have the error messages handy - I should > have > > waited 'till tonight to post :-/ > > > > At this point I don't know if it's a problem with > Java > > or a problem with JEdit, but I was at least hoping > to > > get a response or two from people who successfully > > installed *a* JRE and used a Java application, > with a > > pointer to some instructions. > > I use JEdit under JDK 5.0 with no problems, > installed from jpackage rpms. > It might be that your classpath isn't properly set, > but without knowledge of > the error it's impossible to say. > > Check echo $JAVA_HOME gives what you'd expect. Jim, I'm getting things confused now - did you get jdk 5.0 from jpackage also, or just JEdit? Where did you get JDK 5.0 from? After installing JRE and JEdit, I didn't do anything extra to set classpath or $JAVA_HOME - was I supposed to? Thanks. Hardy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
