Greetings,
I'm running Fedora Core 1 and am having trouble setting the path variable.

/home/lmellen/Java is my working directory and is where the j2sdk1.4.2_04 resides. If in this directory I type:

/home/lmellen/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin/javac HelloWorldApp.java

it compiles fine.

Now I did google and came to /home/lmellen/.bash_profile.
vi .bash_profile has:

#user specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME

After :$HOME/bin i've tried all combinations of:

:$HOME/lmellen/Java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin
:/home/lmellen/Java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin
:$HOME/Java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin

Nothing seems to work, all I get is javac: command not found

Either I'm close or a mile away. I could use some help.

Thank You---Larry

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I'm also having to do the same with the next step!

/home/lmellen/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin/java HelloWorldApp--works,

just java gives me-- java: command not found

export PATH=/home/lmellen/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin:$PATH

Thank You Looking_Lost, but that did'nt work either.

Looking_Lost-- I'm Sorry, I humbly apologize, You were right. I messed up something else when scrolling around inside of vi. Again--Thank You-- I do appreciate the help!

so how should i do it in Fedora Core 3? im so confused on which file or part of the file i should place the 'key statements'...