How do you install Java in slackware?
 

I've gone to sun.com and all they have are rpm's, is there a .tar.gz file i can compile or something? Thanks

It's on the slack installation disks. Check disk one, I think it's in the "d" directory. If you did a full install, it should be included.

If you want the slightly newer version, go to this page and download the self-extracting file (not RPM)

Do they provide anything other than an rpm? If not try rpm2tgz to make a slackpak.
good luck.

get the self-extracting bin... it should install itself when executed.

As said above, there are self extracting bin files that you can get, but also as stated above, if you did a full install you already have it. It is now included in Slackware.

Yea, but JRE 5.0 just came out.... ;) I had to ditch the older SDK just so I would have a major version bump.... Don't need SDK anyway....

Extract the self extracting bin file. It will create a directory structure. Copy or move that to /usr/lib and recreate the /usr/lib/java symlink to point to your new java directory. After that run ldconfig.

If you're installing Java 5 (1.5.x) you could recreate the symlink to the browser plugin as well, since the location was changed in Java 5.

Well if you've a decent connection you could just update the j2sdk package to current since it's 1.5.0 version there.

Then grab the updated package from -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...5_0-i586-1.tgz
(Or your preferred mirror)

hmm.. No kiddin... I need to start checking the PB more often... Too used to going upstream for everything... Nice heads up.