Hi people,

a) i've checked the forums, hope i didnt miss anything, and i'm still stuck.

b) you guys rock, for helping people out with problems.

Ok, I've installed j2sdk, from binary, and I'm aware that it sets the path automatically. Unfortunately, it didnt work for me, as I have gcc-java (or gij or whatever its called) so when I type "java", it doesn't run the SUN java, it runs the built in one.

I need to get round this problem. I'm running redhat 9, and the java package i installed was: j2sdk-1_4_2-nb-3_5_1-bin-linux.bin

Thanks for any help.

MidgetmanUK

put in your path (in .bash_profile) /usr/local/java/jdsdk.../bin
Your path isn't updated automatically, you've got to manually put java in that path.
After you set it up type:
$java -version
HOTSPOT or something like that should be the output
$java -classpath <set a classpath up with the similar to above but to ..../java/lib/.. >

If you didn't get any errors during the installation the above should work. To set up java to run in Mozilla:
$ln -s java/jre/plugger.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/plugger.so

Hi!!

Thanks for the rapid response!

I tried what you said, and even rebooted just incase .bash_profile wasn't executed after restarting x.

Unfortunately, i get the following still:
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$ java -version
java version "1.3.1"
jdkgcj 0.2.3 (http://www.arklinux.org/projects/jdkgcj)
gcj (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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And just incase I got something wrong, here is .bash_profile:
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# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/share/java/j2sdk1.4.2:/usr/share/java/j2sdk1.4.2/bin:/usr/share/java/j2sdk1.4.2/lib:/usr/share/java/j2sdk1.4.2/include

export PATH
unset USERNAME
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Any other suggestions? I heard about symbolic links, but don't really know how to use them. Also, with root permissions i tried to rename "java" in /usr/bin to something else, because that is whats running i think, but it still wouldn't rename :S (is that because its a hard link or something?).

Kind regards,

MidgetmanUK

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I got it working. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before, but basically I removed gcc-java and it's dependancy (j2..something...somthing..).

Now it runs the SUN java binaries just fine.

Thankyou vrey much for your help anyway.

Kind regards,

MidgetmanUK