-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karl Larsen wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> 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 looked and no /usr/bin/jar but there is a /usr/bin/java which lead > to gij which seems to work but not. It did this: > > [karl@k5di Desktop]$ gij jedit4.3pre12install.jar > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > jedit4.3pre12install.jar > at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.8rh) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jedit4.3pre12install.jar > not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:./], > parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}} > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.8rh) > at gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.8rh) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.8rh) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.8rh) > at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.8rh) > [karl@k5di Desktop]$ > > It appears that the jedit file may be bad. > > Geeze > > Karl > > Karl, If you are doing a default x86 Sun JDK install, you will find the distributables in /usr/java/jdk.../bin directory. If you are using Java 6 then you should also see /usr/java/default and /usr/java/latest symlinks pointing to the Java6 directory. You could add /usr/java/default/bin to your path (either by modifying /etc/profile file, or in any other file that you use to setup your environment) Now, you should be able to run whatever command that you wanted to run: java -jar XYZ.jar HTH, Rogue -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHelRjceS9IQvx51YRAhTSAJ4qKIW6nWbvLTTodCxmoE4lTReC0gCfXD2p Unhj2PsZEy4WaNkLSSfsAYE= =FbJ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----