I am going to install Jikes so as I can use java on my linux PC. The problem is I don't know which version I should download is it :-

- jikes-1.20.tar.bz2 tar bzip2
- jikes-1.20-1.src.rpm rpm
- jikes-1.20-1.i586.rpm ia32 (x86) rpm
- jikes-1.20-1.ppc.rpm ppc32 rpm
- jikes-1.20-1.pase_and_aix.tar.Z AIX ppc64 tar compress

and when I do that how on earth do install software in slackware?



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can you tell i'm new at this?

Uhm...

Long version: the names of the files in that list answers your question about which one to download because 1) you know the kind of processor in your box, 2) you know which OS your box is running, 3) you know which distribution of that OS it is, 4) you know about the package management system that distribution uses, and 5) you don't see any such package in the file list. Short version: get the source. Detailed instructions on configuration/compilation/installation are most likely to be included.

I'm not at all familiar with Jikes, so I took a brief look at the homepage (I suppose this is it), and it seems Jikes is not an IDE. It's a compiler. Do you really need it? Why can't you use Sun's SDK (which as you know is included in Slack 9.1)?

Hi,

For a good java IDE look at www.eclipse.org (a free IBM project). Auto completion, auto compilation... you just code and press "run".

Version 3 (already unstable) works fine for me.

Bye

SnOp

euhm, I looked at the site of jikes and it seems that jikes is no IDE, it is just a compiler. If you want a java IDE, there are 2 options:
*Sun's NetBeans IDE: personnaly I think it is kind of crappy, but there are people that like it (although not that much).
*IBM's Eclipse IDE: I think this is a good IDE, except for the huge amount of resources it uses, but so does NetBeans (Damned java!). And no, the name 'eclipse' wasn't chosen by accident .

good luck,
elluva

I find Netbeans a very good ide. If you get the latest version 4.0 and jdk1.5 it is very good product.

Jikes is a java compiler that compiles java source to native byte code.

Lionel.