Thanks you so much for your help and the valuable information. I installed JDK 1.4, and its working without any problem. I haven't yet tried the solution for 'Eclipse' but am sure that it will also work as suggested by you. Regards, Vikas Please respond to For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Sent by: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com To: For users of Fedora Core releases cc: bcc: Subject: Re: What's wrong with my Java installation? <tt>Vikas.Bhasin@britishairways.com wrote: </tt> <tt>> > Hi All, > > I recently installed java on FC1, but i'm not able to run anything. > Even if i try to execute programs like 'java' and javac' i get an error ; > > "usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading > shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory" > > upon checking the package i find that its 'jdk-1.3-fcs' that's > installed on my system. What does 'fcs' stands for? > > I also tried to set the PATH and CLASSPATH but i get the same error as > above. Later i tried installing "eclipse IDE" which supposidly has > its own copy of java and doesn't need to install java seperately (not > very sure). but that also didn't work. > > Can anyone suggest what's wrong? > > Thanks and Regards, > Vikas </tt> <tt>The Fedora kernel is build with NPTL, or Native Posix Threading Library. I believe that the earliest JDK that supports NPTL is JDK 1.4.2_01. Most definately it does NOT support JDK 1.3. </tt> <tt>HTH.... </tt> <tt>-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</tt> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get the best from British Airways at ba.com http://www.ba.com