On Friday 03 Dec 2004 13:06, you wrote: > --- 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? I got both from there, however they only provide nosrc.rpm files for the JDK because of Sun's restrictive redistribution laws. > After installing JRE and JEdit, I didn't do anything > extra to set classpath or $JAVA_HOME - was I supposed > to? JAVA_HOME should be set to the root of the JDK/JRE. With Sun's rpms you do this yourself, the jpackage ones manage it for you.
