cheez and crackers -- i go offline for a couple days and a food fight breaks out. you kids. On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Lamar Owen wrote: > By the way, the jedit installation FAQ explicitly says: "To run the > installer, do whatever you normally do to run a Java jar archive. If > this is your first time, follow these steps: > > 1. Open a terminal or command interpreter window. > 2. Change the current directory to the directory in which you have > stored the jEdit installer file. > 3. Run this command: [full path to java application launcher] -jar > jeditXXXinstall.jar" > (FAQ found at http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/installation.html ) > > NOTE CAREFULLY STEP 3: you have to use the FULL PATH TO THE BINARY. > So, instead of the command line you might think: /usr/bin/java -jar > jedit4.3pre12install.jar (which will not work) > > with IcedTea, for instance, you run > /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java -jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar hmmmm ... now why would that be? i tried it here with just the command "java" and it worked fine. but, at the moment, i have the java alternatives set up thusly: /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java that "java" command worked equally well with alternatives set to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java, but it hung with the alternatives for java set to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java. (whoops, not hung, just painfully slow and brought up only a blank jedit installer dialog window. not good.) but 2/3 isn't bad. so what has all this ruckus been about? rday -- p.s. whoops, not a blank install dialog after all, just took forever to fill in. so all three java alternatives seem to work fine installing jedit. ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
