Hello,
I am trying to run a java program via shell and I get the following message (even just typing java gives me this):

libgcj-java-placeholder.sh

This script is a placeholder for the /usr/bin/java and /usr/bin/javac
master links required by jpackage.org conventions. libgcj's
rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools are now slave symlinks to these
masters, and are managed by the alternatives(8) system.

This change was necessary because the rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools
installed by previous versions of libgcj conflicted with symlinks
installed by jpackage.org JVM packages.



How can I get my java program to run? Thanks in advance


Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3
WHM 9.7.2 cPanel 9.7.7-R15

to use java i often just download the j2se from sun and extract it into /opt
then i add the path /opt/j2re/bin

to run my programs its just

java myprogram

Been using java for a while, never saw that one before.

cadj is right, just go to http://java.sun.com and download the lastest J2SE JRE (java runtime environment).

Use the self extractor to extract it where ever you like, and I usually like to make some symlinks to anything I use frequently.

so...
download it
chmod +x java<rest of filename>.bin
./java<rest of filename>.bin
If needbe move the extracted folder where ever you like

ln -sf [path to java executable in extracted folder] /usr/bin/java
( example of my setup: ln -sf /usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05/jre/bin/java /usr/bin/java )

java program_name

Most definitely works that way