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.
Nope...
java -jar jedit42install.jar
Works just fine here...
>
> Geeze
Yes...but for a different reason. :-)
>
> Karl
>
>
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