Can someone help please? I am relatively new to linux, but I kind of have to use it for my project. I downloaded the jdk1.1.5v7 from blackdown.org. and did not find any instructions as to how to install it on a Linux system (Redhat 5.0) 1) there were two different things there one was glibc and 2) libc, which one do I need? I basically downloaded the glibc/v7 version that was 11.X megs long, and gunziped and untared it. This is where I am, I would really appreciate some explanation as to how one would install this. I think some environment variables needs to be set, like Classpath or JAVAhome or something. If so where would I set those? As I said from the conversation here, I see that one needs to update glibc from Redhat and a few other things. Can some one please tell me kind of in a step by step way (I have not been a linux user up to this point) what I should do. Thanks a lot in advance.