-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ed Greshko wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:02 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote: >>> >>>>> Knute Johnson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> To install and run Sun Java on F8 look at the simplified >>>>>> instructions on this site; >>>>>> >>>>>> http://rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com/sun-java-on-F8.html >>>>>> >>>>>> You don't need to remove anything before installing Sun Java. >>>>>> JEdit should work with icedtea anyway. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Some of the things the page says are wrong. But it will be easy >>>>> now with sim links to use the right java and jedit will work. By >>>>> the way, I tried it with icedtea and it did not work at ALL! >>>>> >>>> What is wrong with the document? >>>> >>> ---- >>> specifically, nothing, generally, you are really only plucking the low >>> hanging fruit of a i386 install with emphasis on getting functional use >>> of the sun java plugin running in Firefox. >>> >>> If someone has ambitions beyond that, your instructions are of little >>> value. We have already covered this ground. >>> >>> Craig >>> >>> >> The document does set up the new java to work with firefox I think. >> The step to make the new java work with a terminal is missing but I >> found it. See later message. >> >> > As opposed to the old java which is older than the new java which > doesn't have as much caffeine as the java that came with my coffee maker > that didn't have old java but new java. > The one question that no one has asked here is "For what purpose do you need Jedit?" Jedit is defined as a java *programmers* text editor. ;-) - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkd9GmkACgkQAO0wNI1X4QENaQCg1fohMKyh0qjAkjRradTacR6g XioAnicTDZzLE2VX8SDooTXvYPCJMGy6 =MTgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
