Java problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 30 04:45:07 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 10:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >   
> >> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>     
> >>>>>     The web page doesn't cover the problem if you got
> >>>>> jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin which is a bash file. What do you do with
> >>>>> this     
> >>>>>           
> >> You mean you could find....
> >>
> >> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/index.html
> >>
> >>     
> > ----
> > He was following Knute Johnsons' installation notes...
> >
> > http://www.knutejohnson.com/sun-java-on-F8.html
> >
> > which leaves that out
> >
> >   
> Hummm....  Step 1 of that link simply says....
> 
> Download the Sun Java Linux RPM from java.sun.com and install it.
> 
> Just seems sensible that if you don't know what "install it" means and
> can't figure it out for yourself that you'd look for help from the place
> you downloaded.  But, that's just me....  :-)
----
me too...but I've done it enough, I could do it in my sleep  ;-)

I sort of have a thing about mini walk-throughs that are incomplete and
often create more confusion than they prevent.

Craig




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