Ed Greshko wrote: > 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... > Sorry.... I meant.... java -jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar >> Geeze >> > Yes...but for a different reason. :-) > >> Karl >> >> >> > > > -- Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my gosh....I could be eating a slow learner.