Hey there
I am quite newbie to Linux and i dont actually know how to install gprolog;
I have downloaded it into home/me/Desktop
It is an rpm file called 'gprolog-1.3.0-1.i386.rpm'
Guys any ideas?
Also i need the java compiler or javac anyway.
I currently have java & java_vm & javaws in my machine
Does anyone know what edition do i have to download from java.sun.com?

Many thanks for your time and for sharing your knowledge

Is there a specific reason you are using Backtrack Slackware?

to be perfectly honest i dont have any particular reason
The only reason that i installed BackTrack was that is a security suite and i found quite interesting.

It's probably easier if your new to linux to install a distro like Ubuntu which comes with an easy to use package manager.

Hey there
I recently installed Jdk1.6 in my machine. I tried to install it in usr/local as root(i followed the instructions of sun)
so if i type:echo $HOME
/root <-------------what i get
Despite that the installation was successful i cant find 'javac'.
Any ideas what i have to do next?

Many thanks for your help

Well thanks for the advice
To be honest i agree with you but i cant change now

I'd like to help you, but I don't know what package manager Backtrack Slackware uses. It probably will not be an RPM-based one.

Please let me take the chance to ask smth
I successfully installed jdk1.6 in /usr/local as the instructions of Sun say.
The fact is that javac is not recognized
I inserted into bashrc file on the 5th line the following line of code
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/bin/
It didnt work
I noticed that on the 3 next lines of that file there is the following:

# Set the default system $PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
/usr/local/apache/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/opt/mono/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:."

I dont really know but smth looks wrong to me
Any ideas?

Really appreciate your replies

Manos

Put your addition below the other lines. Restart your shell and execute

If you can see the path to your Java directory, you will also be able to run java, javac, etc.

I don't see what relevance root's home directory has to your problem :/.

Have you tried adding the directory containing javac to your $PATH?

Edit: please don't double post in future.

Really really sorry
Finally i managed to make the system to recognize the compiler
Thanks really much for your reply

I merged your two very closely related threads, and would
like to encourage you to keep things together, rather than
splitting our members efforts into two threads.



Cheers,
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