You could create a nice, short little script that passes all the parameters for you. If you're running KDE or Gnome, you could also just create a 'link' to it on your desktop with all the lovely parameters in that.

And how on earth did you get into such trouble installing J2RE? I did something that I don't normally do... I went and got the J2RE-something.rpm.bin. Ran it and it self-expanded to an RPM file. Installed the RPM file and all is well! £0.02

:) Thymox, look who was helping him :D Anytime you see my name attached to something, it can only lead to problems ;)

Yes, the script would looks something like:

#!/bin/bash
#This is for the JPhotoBrush java program:
cd /to/your/directory/with/JPhotoBrush.jar
java -jar JPhotoBrush.jar
#end script

And copy and paste that into any text editor, edit the path to your program, save the file as JPhotoBrush (or whatever you want) and then:
chmod +x JPhotoBrush
And now you can move that wherever you want, and if you put it in your PATH (maybe in /usr/bin) then you can execute it my just typing JPhotoBrush

I am no bash expert, but I think that's right. Check around first, or ask someone to take a look at it.

Glad you got it working btw, how do you like the program?

Cool

Thanks alot MasterC....

Yeh the program is ok..i really like the blend effect it's got with it hehehe i don't know how to do that in Gimp..

Garry :D

For future reference if you need more stuff to do with java -jar just create an alias jjar='java -jar' for instance, you know where to put it right? ~/.bashrc is a good place for aliases, then whenever there is a jar archive to be delt with java -jar just type in console jjar archive.jar and volia!

ok cool, but yeh another question,when i made that script and put it in profile.d that should make it work for ALL users right? what happens if i want root and other users to run Java? and that program...cause it only runs for 'gt'

Garry :D

Wouldn't this make the "/usr/local/bin/java/bin" your only entry in the PATH?

Hi everyone!

i've been reading this thread... i want to install
java on my system too!... i have follow step-by-step
your instructions MasterC... all i want to do is install
java so i can run LimeWire.I'm pretty shure i have
java installed... but somehow limewire won't run!
i get these err msgs:

[me@localhost me]$ java limewire
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: limewire

[me@localhost me]$ limewire
/usr/java/jre1.3.1_06/bin/i386/native_threads/java: relocation error: /usr/java/jre1.3.1_06/lib/i386/libpreemptive_close.so: symbol __libc_sendto, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference


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THIS IS WHY I THINK JAVA IS INSTALLED:
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[me@localhost me]$ java
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
(to execute a class)
or java -jar [-options] jarfile [args...]
(to execute a jar file)

where options include:
-client to select the "client" VM
-hotspot is a synonym for the "hotspot" VM [deprecated]
-server to select the "server" VM
-classic to select the "classic" VM
If present, the option to select the VM must be first.
The default VM is -client.

-cp -classpath <directories and zip/jar files separated by :>
set search path for application classes and resources
-D<name>=<value>
set a system property
-verbose[:class|gc|jni]
enable verbose output
-version print product version and exit
-showversion print product version and continue
-? -help print this help message
-X print help on non-standard options

i really don't know what the problem is... any help would be appreciated!

thanx!