Hi

Like most people, I have had a rough time getting Java to work on my RH 9.0 box. I struggled with this for nearly six months and went 'round and 'round until some very kind people on this board told me how I could install an earlier version of Mozilla (locally) and make it work.

Well, several days ago, I downloaded Mozilla 1.3.1 and then went to a site where Java was required, downloaded the plugin when the error message came up and now I am able to run all kinds of Java stuff which really nice for a change and after all the trouble I've had lately (I even got Flash!). I can now run java applets, Java chats, Java games and anything else "Java" but one thing is puzzling me. When I bring up the terminal and type in some commands, it seems that I actually *don't* have Java installed...hmmm...from my terminal...

[hotdog@localhost hotdog]$ which java
/usr/bin/which: no java in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/hotdog/bin)
[hotdog@localhost hotdog]$ java -version
bash: java: command not found
[hotdog@localhost hotdog]$ whereis java
java: /usr/share/java
[hotdog@localhost hotdog]$

What could this mean?. Also, I have looked all over for an "Active Worlds" type 3D world program and have stumbled upon Virtual Universe but it does'nt seem to be able to find Java either. Now that I think about all this I am going to guess that this is because I installed Java (and Mozilla) in my home folder rather than root(?). Should I install the Java plugin in root also?.

Thank's for any help I can get on this from you gurus

I have a /usr/share/java, /usr/include/java, /usr/lib/java, /usr/bin/java, etc.

Run this:

su -
(password)

find / -name 'java' -print

and see what that turns up.

Hey thank's folks. Sorry it took so long for my reply.

First, here is the result of echo $PATH...

[root@localhost hotdog]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/hotdog/bin
[root@localhost hotdog]#

See, what I'm actually trying to do is get this Virtual Universe (3D-chat.com) program to work. Anyone ever use it?. Here is what I see in the file that runs the whole thing (start.sh)...

PATH=/usr/local/java/jre1.4.1_01/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin:/usr/local/java/jre1.4.1_01/lib:/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/lib:$PATH
java -Xms64M -Xmx200M -cp .:data.jar:MainWin.jar MainWin 2>> errlog.txt

I guess these are some of the paths that the program looks for. BTW, the program automatically installs Blackdown Java and Java3D (supposedly) and I su'd into root before installing it but I still can't seem to get the little sucker to run. I know it's a lot to ask but how would it be if someone here, using the information about my Java location(s), re-wrote this "start.sh" script for me so that it would work and then just posted it here?. I could then copy it and stick it in the VU folder and try to run it. This might work if none minds doing it...please