Hello and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread.

The problem I'm having is that I can't for the life of me seem to install the Java Development Kit system-wide. Now, I don't usually use an account other than root and decided it was time to change that. Thus, due to my lack of experience in said subject, I have no clue how to go about installing programs for more than just root.

I pulled the program in question (jdk-7u45-linux-x64) off of slackbuilds.org as per the usual and installed it. However, I can't figure out how to get it to show up under the user account I created a few hours ago (tells you how new to the whole "user" thing I am).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have any more questions about my setup, please feel free to ask.

Steven

Hi Steven,

if you installed the resulting slackbuilds.org package via installpkg or upgradepkg --install-new, it should be fine. If you open a terminal as user and type, e.g., `javac' or java, does it return `command not found'? I *think* the relevant files in /etc/profile.d should load and set up PATH properly with a default account, if not check if a file like /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh is executable (I use Alien BOB's openjdk, which installs an openjdk.csh and openjdk.sh file).

lems

lems:
Thanks for the reply.

It does indeed return `command not found`. I looked into the scripts in /etc/profile.d and there is indeed a jdk.sh file that points to the right dirs, but it doesn't seem to be loading on this account. How odd.

Is the jdk.sh file set executable?

gnashley:

I checked what you said and it turns out it wasn't. Setting the file executable did the trick. Makes me wonder why it wasn't...

Either way, thank you all for your help. It is much appreciated.

Steven

Had the same problem, if you logout and login again it would solve it. Read the "Java not found" part in the end http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:java