Java Solution

[Karl Larsen]

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     Dennis your another person who says I know nothing about java. Your
>> full of self love Dennis. I know more from one day of study than you
>> will ever know.
>>     
>
> Karl, you do realize that you just called a member of the Fedora Engineering 
> Steering Committee stupid, right?  See 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee
>
> He's the build and release engineer for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) 
> project.
>
> He's a member of the Fedora Project Board for crying out loud! ( 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board  )
>
> He actually maintains some of the packages that you (and I) use.
>
> Even with your PhD in EE, when it comes to Fedora I know beyond a shadow of a 
> doubt that Dennis, one of the many capable Fedora leaders, knows a great deal 
> more about this subject than you.
>
> Up to this point, I've been leaning towards giving you the benefit of the 
> doubt, but this takes the cake.  Not again.
>
> 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  
>
> And, guess what: it installs and runs just fine.  I just installed it here, 
> perfectly.  It didn't work by not giving the full path to the java binary 
> (why, I don't know, but it is something the jedit developers are aware of, 
> since they specifically say to give the full path to the java binary).  But I 
> do know that I have a copy of jedit installed right now without a Sun java 
> being installed.  Would you like to see the screenshots?
>
> Incidentally, thanks for the pointer to jedit; looks like something I might 
> use.
>   
    Something happened in my immediate family yesterday and let me say 
it is not like me to pick on people like I did. But I was not in sound 
mind yesterday. Today I say please forgive me Dennis what I said was 
stupid and not correct. The only thing accurate is that what I learned 
about java I feel strong about. This again is that with all the java 
provided in a Work Station load of F8, which I since learned is not very 
much capability, I had no successful install of jedit. It is nice that 
others have had success. I can't explain that.


Karl


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