> I'd love to run Java and Swing on Linux, so I downloaded JDK1.1.6v2 and
> JDK1.1.5vX (for my intel pentium, 64 MB, Linux 2.0.30)
>
Did you mean to say you downloaded a version of swing? Or, are you
actually trying to run two different version of the JDK?
> Un-GZIP-ped the stuff, un-TAR-red. All went fine. Until I tried to run
> the script /usr/local/java/bin/java. It reported: File not found for the
> file /usr/local/java/bin/i586/green_threads/java. But the file does
> exist!!!
This, I believe, is a classic symptom of not having required run-time
library files properly installed. Yes, the executable file you tried
to invoke does indeed exist, but Linux is complaining about not being
able to find/load a run-time library that it requires. (It would be
nice if it were a little more explicit about this.)
Read carefully the installation notes that come with the JDK for Linux.
Depending on which version of the JDK you downloaded, it may require
either the libc5 libraries or the newer glibc (version 6) libraries.
In either case, you must have these run-time libraries installed
correctly on your system before you can run java.
You can also check out the docs on the Java-Linux page for more info:
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
Hope this helps.
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