How install Java JRE on FC3?

[Jim Higson]

On Friday 03 Dec 2004 13:06, you wrote:
> --- Jim Higson <jh at 333.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 03 Dec 2004 12:33, Hardy Merrill wrote:
> > > --- Jim Higson <jh at 333.org> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 03 Dec 2004 12:24, Hardy Merrill
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > > My goal last night was to get JEdit installed
> >
> > and
> >
> > > > > working.
> > > > >
> > > > > This required Java, so I tried a few different
> > > >
> > > > ways to
> > > >
> > > > > install Java.  First I downloaded Sun's JRE SE
> > > >
> > > > 1.4.2.
> > > >
> > > > > The install seemed to go fine, but in the end
> >
> > I
> >
> > > > would
> > > >
> > > > > get an error when trying to run JEdit - sorry,
> >
> > I
> >
> > > > don't
> > > >
> > > > > have the text of the error to copy/paste in.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then I went to fedorafaq.org and found
> > > >
> > > > instructions
> > > >
> > > > > for installing Java via yum, so I did
> > > > >
> > > > >    yum install j2re
> > > > >
> > > > > which installed j2re from "dag" since I have a
> >
> > dag
> >
> > > > > repo defined.  But still when I try to run
> >
> > jedit I
> >
> > > > get
> > > >
> > > > > an error.
> > > >
> > > > Which is...?
> > >
> > > Sorry, like I said I'm not on that FC3 machine now
> >
> > so
> >
> > > I don't have the error messages handy - I should
> >
> > have
> >
> > > waited 'till tonight to post :-/
> > >
> > > At this point I don't know if it's a problem with
> >
> > Java
> >
> > > or a problem with JEdit, but I was at least hoping
> >
> > to
> >
> > > get a response or two from people who successfully
> > > installed *a* JRE and used a Java application,
> >
> > with a
> >
> > > pointer to some instructions.
> >
> > I use JEdit under JDK 5.0 with no problems,
> > installed from jpackage rpms.
> > It might be that your classpath isn't properly set,
> > but without knowledge of
> > the error it's impossible to say.
> >
> > Check echo $JAVA_HOME gives what you'd expect.
>
> Jim, I'm getting things confused now - did you get jdk
> 5.0 from jpackage also, or just JEdit?  Where did you
> get JDK 5.0 from?

I got both from there, however they only provide nosrc.rpm files for the JDK 
because of Sun's restrictive redistribution laws.

> After installing JRE and JEdit, I didn't do anything
> extra to set classpath or $JAVA_HOME - was I supposed
> to?

JAVA_HOME should be set to the root of the JDK/JRE. With Sun's rpms you do 
this yourself, the jpackage ones manage it for you.