[rhn-users] Newbie: Installing jdk1.5.0_06 on FC3

[Peter Kühnlein]

Thanks Paul,

I tried do that right away... with no success, however. Do you know a 
way to determine whether I got javax.* anyway? I mean: it should have 
been installed w/ the jdk distribution in the first place, as far as I 
got it, but ~ who knows?

/peter

Mallasch, Paul wrote:

> I've had to also put Java in the path.
>  
> export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
>  
>
> -paul
>
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> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Peter Kühnlein
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] Newbie: Installing jdk1.5.0_06 on FC3
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm a bloody java beginner and got an installation/configuration 
> problem. I downloaded and installed sun's jdk1.5.0_06 to my FC3 box in 
> /usr/share/jdk1.5.0_06/. I fiddled around with the symlinks to point 
> to the binaries in .../bin/ and javac etc. now run. However, I get a
>
> java.lang.ClassCastException: SwingUI
>         at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:721)
>         at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:650)
>         at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:324)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
>
> when I try to view the class built from the simple code at the end of 
> this message with appletviewer (all of the code there for 
> completeness). I do think java doesn't find javax.* - and don't know 
> how to tell it where it is. I've set my
>
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/jdk1.5.0_06/
>
> (that's where my installation is).
>
> Any idea what is going wrong here? (I posted a similar question to the 
> parallel sun-list, but got no solution from there...)
>
> THX, Peter

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