hi!
just wondering if anybody would know where i can download an install to put javac on my redhat 9.0 i checked rpmfind.net but dont think i could find one anywhere! thanks a lot!

http://java.sun.com

--Ian

hi! so i installed the javac compiler from the sun website except now i dont know how to change that whole path thing... i tried to read up on the other posts which mentioned stuff about how i should change my profile etc... but whenver i type in ~/.bash_profile from root, it tells me that "permission is denied" .. so i'm not exactly sure how to change my profile and what i should put in my profile in order to change it so that javac compiler will work! thansk a lot!

I'm new at RH 9 too and I had to put Javac.

I just went to terminal switched to the superuser ("su" at command prompt) then edited ("gedit" at command) the /etc/ld.so.conf and I add the location of my JDK directory. And to edit the bash.profile file I think you have the change the permissions to it, but I'm not sure.

To edit .bash_profile, simply enter (as a normal user):
and add the line
now type
and type "java" to see if it is installed.

imonfya, why edit /etc/ld.so.conf ?? I don't think you need to do that to install java, at least I never have.

I hope this helps
--Ian

I did it because I couldn't run javac from any directory, and when I added it in there it worked fine. I guess LOL

hey! i tried that code above, but it still didnt work for me....

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
PATH=/usr/local/java/bin:$PATH

export PATH
export PATH
unset USERNAME

i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong.... at first i tried only one export PATH but it didnt work so then i added the second above export PATH as shown.... but that didnt work either... so i'm not exactly sure whats going on... thanks a bunch again!

Sorry, I forgot that you need to set the JAVA_HOME variable as well.

In your .bash_profile add:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
export JAVA_HOME

and source .bash_profile again, and it (hopefully) should work

I hope this helps
--Ian

I'm pretty sure that the rpm doesn't install itself to there, unless it adds some kind of symlink i'm not aware of. My .bashrc file in my home directory is something like:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin

Close the terminal then open it again and it should work.
Works fine for me at least.

hi!
ahhh i'm really sorry, but it still isnt working for me... :/ so there definately must be something i am doing wrong.... :/ i tried both alternatives above but neither worked for me.... below is the second alternative that i tried.... the other was just using PATH=/usr/local/java/bin:$PATH instead of the PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin line... ahhh thanks again!!!

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
export JAVA_HOME

export PATH
export PATH
unset USERNAME

Where have you installed java to??

You need:
In my above post, I said /usr/local/java, as that is where I have installed java. Sorry about the confusion...

--Ian

hey!
no need to apologise... its my fault for not knowing any of this ... :/
but now it worked! thanks a lot for your help!!!