What's wrong with my Java installation?

[Keven Ring]

Vikas.Bhasin at britishairways.com wrote:

>
> 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

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.

HTH....