Java problem
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jan 1 13:57:13 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>
>>>>> Your complaints about the GPL always boil down to the
> Returning to Java, I have installed the one from the Sun web site.
> It is an rpm with a wrapper that allows them to force you to sign
> something. Then it installs something but it must be incomplete.
>
> I want java so I can load jedit so I can write to the wiki at the
> Fedora Doc's site. It is supposed to be simple. The jedit site said do
> this:
>
> $ jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar
>
> but alas there is no active jar on my Fedora. Earlier Fedora it worked
> but on F8 it doesn't.
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
I don't know what you did wrong. But on my F8 system I did install
Sun's jdk (jdk-6u3-linux-i586.rpm)
and there is /usr/bin/jar.
--
I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
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