Java problem

[Karl Larsen]

Rogue wrote:
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> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> Ed Greshko wrote:
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>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>> Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>>>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Your complaints about the GPL always boil down to the             
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>>>>    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?
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>>> 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.
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>>    I looked and no /usr/bin/jar but there is a /usr/bin/java which lead
>> to gij which seems to work but not. It did this:
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>> [karl at k5di Desktop]$ gij jedit4.3pre12install.jar
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> jedit4.3pre12install.jar
>>   at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.8rh)
>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jedit4.3pre12install.jar
>> not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:./],
>> parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
>>   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.8rh)
>>   at gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.8rh)
>>   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.8rh)
>>   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.8rh)
>>   at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.8rh)
>> [karl at k5di Desktop]$
>>
>> It appears that the jedit file may be bad.
>>
>> Geeze
>>
>> Karl
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> Karl,
>
> If you are doing a default x86 Sun JDK install, you will find the
> distributables in /usr/java/jdk.../bin directory. If you are using Java
> 6 then you should also see /usr/java/default and /usr/java/latest
> symlinks pointing to the Java6 directory.
>
> You could add /usr/java/default/bin to your path (either by modifying
> /etc/profile file, or in any other file that you use to setup your
> environment)
>
> Now, you should be able to run whatever command that you wanted to run:
> 	java -jar XYZ.jar
>
> HTH,
> Rogue
>   
Hi Rogue, I would never guessed the above. Turns out you need to be 
using a root login. But I have the jEdit installed but now reading the 
man page to see how to do it :-)

Thank you so much. I was sure that having no /usr/bin/jar meant I did 
something wrong. But the new stuff takes new ways. Thanks a lot!

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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