Java Solution
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Jan 4 10:02:44 UTC 2008
cheez and crackers -- i go offline for a couple days and a food
fight breaks out. you kids.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Lamar Owen wrote:
> By the way, the jedit installation FAQ explicitly says: "To run the
> installer, do whatever you normally do to run a Java jar archive. If
> this is your first time, follow these steps:
>
> 1. Open a terminal or command interpreter window.
> 2. Change the current directory to the directory in which you have
> stored the jEdit installer file.
> 3. Run this command: [full path to java application launcher] -jar
> jeditXXXinstall.jar"
> (FAQ found at http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/installation.html )
>
> NOTE CAREFULLY STEP 3: you have to use the FULL PATH TO THE BINARY.
> So, instead of the command line you might think: /usr/bin/java -jar
> jedit4.3pre12install.jar (which will not work)
>
> with IcedTea, for instance, you run
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java -jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar
hmmmm ... now why would that be? i tried it here with just the
command "java" and it worked fine. but, at the moment, i have the
java alternatives set up thusly:
/usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java
that "java" command worked equally well with alternatives set to
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java, but it hung with the alternatives
for java set to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java. (whoops, not
hung, just painfully slow and brought up only a blank jedit installer
dialog window. not good.) but 2/3 isn't bad.
so what has all this ruckus been about?
rday
--
p.s. whoops, not a blank install dialog after all, just took forever
to fill in. so all three java alternatives seem to work fine
installing jedit.
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Home page: http://crashcourse.ca
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