Hi, and thanks for this site.

I just installed java on my system.

Oracle provides a walk-through on their website for the installation, but a command seems to be missing.

Once a user resets permissions through chmod a+w etc, they are instructed to type the following:

./<FILENAME>, where the filename is something like jre-7u**-linux-i586.bin

I found that it is necessary to execute the instruction as follows:

sudo ./<FILENAME>

This even though I am already logged in as administrator.

It may be because I am running Mint, and Mint is different from Ubuntu, but I imagine there must be other newbies out there who will be stumped by the flow of error messages that will result from simply executing the given command. So it might be nice to have a thread somewhere in linuxland that helps out.

Needless to say, I would email Oracle about it if I could find an email for them. Posting something here might be the next-best option.

And again, thanks.

This forum is specifically for issues with the linuxquestions.org website. I'm afraid we have no control over Oracle's documentation ;-)

Hi, Chris

No, no, I understand that. But as I am sure I am not the only one that will want to install the jdk under Linux Mint, there will doubtless be others that will run into the same problem, so I wanted to share...

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Linux Mint forum and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

--jeremy

Hi.
What exactly do you want to acheive?
Installing JRE or JDK?

If you didn't understand my question, you probably need JRE
This site helped me:
http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en