help required(regarding java)
 

fellows i installed java netbeans on my red hat 9 system along with java sdk 1.4, it was included with this package, rest of java is working fine but netbeans is not working. when i click the icon, nothing happens but when i go to the folder of netbeans script and run it from there it gives a message that
cannot find java: use --jdkhome home switch
the i use this switch a provide the path which in my case is /opt/jdk1.4/bin but event then it would repeat the same message.
plz help me out.

I use NetBeans and i can say that it is just great.

Do you installed the JDK?
You have to download and install J2SE package from java.sun.com.
Just install J2SE, and then NetBeans will run.
J2SE includes all of JDK and some other Java stuffs.

It seems to me jdkhome should be /opt/jdk1.4 in your case, not /opt/jdk1.4/bin.

i have installed J2SE and i have used the both of the above switches.

or should i re-install all the suff

After looking closer your first post, it seems you use "--jdkhome" while runide.sh expects "-jdkhome" (single dash).

yeh i use --jdkhome, because its what the system ask for

I don't know what it asks for, but it certainly expects -jdkhome, not --jdkhome.