On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 04:15 +0200, thufir wrote: > I'm looking at jcdwriter: > > "Running jCDWriter > > java -jar jcdwriter.jar > > If you have your java installed at /usr/local/java/bin/java then you can use full path also: > /usr/local/java/bin/java -jar jcdwriter.jar" > > <http://jcdwriter.sourceforge.net/#Installation> > > but this raises the question, for me: what's the difference between installing, for example, java, to "/usr/local/java" versus "/usr/java"? I'm not familiar with their product, but the example they gave is one that typically is not in your path (thus java -jar jcdwriter.jar would not work) /usr/local/java is a fairly common install path when installing java from a tarball, and one that often is not in the users path. My own preference is to use jpackage.org to install java. [testing@fc4t2 ~]$ which java /usr/bin/java [testing@fc4t2 ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin |grep java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 11 15:14 java -> /etc/alternatives/java [testing@fc4t2 ~]$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/ |grep java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 16 20:39 java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java [testing@fc4t2 ~]$ My real java is at /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java But it's available via /usr/bin/java
