Karl Larsen wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >>>>> Your complaints about the GPL always boil down to the > Returning to Java, I have installed the one from the Sun web site. > It is an rpm with a wrapper that allows them to force you to sign > something. Then it installs something but it must be incomplete. > > I want java so I can load jedit so I can write to the wiki at the > Fedora Doc's site. It is supposed to be simple. The jedit site said do > this: > > $ jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar > > but alas there is no active jar on my Fedora. Earlier Fedora it worked > but on F8 it doesn't. > > What have I done wrong? > I don't know what you did wrong. But on my F8 system I did install Sun's jdk (jdk-6u3-linux-i586.rpm) and there is /usr/bin/jar. -- I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD STERLING when you really need him?
