installing Java platform
 

Hey,

I am trying to install the Java runtime environment on FC6 (because it's necessary in order to run LimeWire) and I can't seem to get anything to work right. I finally followed all the instructions given to me on their website, and I received a message that said that the latest version of Java is already installed. However, when I try to open a site that uses javascript or that requires JRE, it tells me that it is NOT installed and gives me the link to Java's site. Also, when I try to install LimeWire, it gives me an error message that it cannot install correctly because Java is not installed on my system. Now, I found out that Java comes pre-packaged with FC6, so installing it is actually unnecessary.

Any ideas on what's going on? This has got me thoroughly stumped. Thanks in advance, guys.


Matt

You need to add two magical lines to the "profile" file under /etc:

JRE_HOME=/path/to/JRE
export JRE_HOME

Then log out and back in and as root type this in a terminal:

echo $JRE_HOME

if that returns the path to your JRE, your problem should be solved.