I looked for quite awhile among the other posts and didn't find anything helpful. Let me know if I missed something.
When I run a .bin from the desktop I get this error (this error is not limited to just this .bin):

[root@nanan programs]# ./multishow-2.3.5unix.bin
Preparing to install...
tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.
./multishow-2.3.5unix.bin: line 327: [: `)' expected, found -z
WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required and/or available
could not be determined. The installation will be attempted anyway.
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable. You must install a VM prior to
running this program.
[root@nanan programs]#

java -version gives:

[root@nanan programs]# java -version
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@nanan programs]#


the $PATH variable is:

[root@nanan programs]# $PATH
bash: /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin: No such file or directory
[root@nanan programs]#

Any help would be appreciated.

My guess is that your install program is not seeing the Sun Java, since it appears you have the gcc Java loaded.

Though I appreciate the gcc java attempt, I wouldn't be suprised if it makes life difficult.

In Sun's java, there's an environment variable which points to your java directories - JAVA_HOME - and is usually something like /usr/bin/java.

On my system I have the following:


JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java
JAVA_ROOT=/usr/lib/jvm/java
JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java/jre


If you want the location on your system, type at a command prompt (sorry, it can't be helped):

echo $JAVA_HOME

You should get something like the following:

kai@yoda:~> echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java

This is what happened in the command prompt:
[root@nanan abbot-1.0.0rc2]# echo $JAVA_HOME

[root@nanan abbot-1.0.0rc2]#

the variable is not set to anything...

Yeah, that's what I figured.

Type: which java

That should give you the location of java. (It should be similar to mine.) You can then set the JAVA_HOME. I'm pretty sure the command is: export JAVA_HOME=<path to your java stuff>

I'm thinking that should work.

Oh, you running at root? If you are, I'd recommend against it.