On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:26 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Jim Cornette wrote: > > > > Thanks! The package installed slowly, but successfully. Now to figure > > out how to get Openoffice 2 to use this JRE. > > Edit the /etc/profile file's PATH to read: > > # Path manipulation > if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then > pathmunge <location of java bin directory> > pathmunge /sbin > pathmunge /usr/sbin > pathmunge /usr/local/sbin > fi > > This will add the Java binaries location to the PATH statement for all > users. >
Not quite. You have put in the section for root, and not the regular user so only root will get that path added.
You need a section such as this added for all other users.
if [ `id -u` != 0 ]; then pathmunge <location of java bin directory> fi
The best thing to do - add JPackage.org to your yum repository - and istall their sun rpm compat package - it will do everything for you and so much more.
http://www.jpackage.org/
As far as Java on Linux/Fedora goes, it's the best thing since canned vienna sausages.
