JRE required - OpenOffice 2 (beta)

[Michael A. Peters]

On 01/30/2005 08:46:19 PM, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:26 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> > Jim Cornette wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks! The package installed slowly, but successfully. Now to
> figure
> > > out how to get Openoffice 2 to use this JRE.
> >
> > Edit the /etc/profile file's PATH to read:
> >
> > # Path manipulation
> > if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then
> > 	pathmunge <location of java bin directory>
> > 	pathmunge /sbin
> >          pathmunge /usr/sbin
> >          pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
> > fi
> >
> > This will add the Java binaries location to the PATH statement for
> all
> > users.
> >
> 
> Not quite.  You have put in the section for root, and not the regular
> user so only root will get that path added.
> 
> You need a section such as this added for all other users.
> 
>   if [ `id -u` != 0 ]; then
>  	pathmunge <location of java bin directory>
>   fi
> 
>

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istall their sun rpm compat package - it will do everything for you and  
so much more.

http://www.jpackage.org/

As far as Java on Linux/Fedora goes, it's the best thing since canned  
vienna sausages.