On Friday 09 March 2001 20:01, you wrote:
It used to get installed in the /usr/lib/java if I rember correctly, but it
was in a place one would not normaly think to look. Hope that helps
Aries
> Dear friends:
>
> I found out from the KDE web site that the best Java (J2RE) for KDE 2.0
> (and, I assume, KDE 2.1) is NOT the SunJava 1.3.0 nor the IBM Java but
> the one from Blackdown. So, I downloaded the JRE 1.3.0 file from
>
> http://www.blackdown.org/
>
> Specifically, the file j2re-1.3.0-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2
>
> from
>
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.3.0/i38
>6/FCS/
>
> This is a bz2 compressed file. The way to uncompress it, as I learned
> from the bz2 site is:
>
> bunzip j2re-1.3.0-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2
>
> The file uncompressed successfully.
>
> I then opened Konqueror, both as root and user, configured the Java
> under Settings, Browser to detect java automatically. As root, it seemed
> to detect it and started with a message "Loading" but then stopped.
>
> Question 1: Where in the world is the Blackdown j2re directory. I've
> looked everywhere to find it and have failed. It's there but where,
> please?
>
> Question 2: How can I make Blackdown's Java work in Konqueror (KDE 2.01)
>
> Thank you all so very much.
>
> Benjamin
