Rick Funderburg wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I read a warning about jre when I was installing FC4 *or* when I was
downloading and installing Mozilla. I don't remember which. And now
I cannot find the warning.
The warning said *not* to install jre but to use something else
instead. Anyone know of the warning?
I don't know the warning, but if you want Java, you either install the
jre or the jdk (Java Development Kit).
I've never seen the warning either, but on my systems Java will not work. I develop Java
apps, so I have a complete JDK (actually, on one system I have two of them - IBM 1.4.2 and
Sun's Java Studio Enterprise 8) on a couple systems, and JREs on others. Even when
following the directions from IBM, Sun, and Mozilla, Mozilla refuses to load Java apps and
just says the JRE is not installed.
I may even have had this problem on a system with Firefox as well (I've had it happen on
four different systems at least).
On a related note, I had a Java COMM API working on my laptop under FC3. I upgraded to FC4
and now it fails. I get an error when it tries to load a supporting .so file saying
java.library.path does not contain the .so file. The stupid file was never moved, and for
the life of me I can't figure out how to edit (or even check) java.library.path in Linux.
At one point I had a link to a web page that described how to fix such a problem, but now
I can't find it. (Of course I'd like to know why upgrading to FC4 would break it in the
first place!)
PGA
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