Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Paul G. Allen wrote:
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
The warning that I remember (vaguely) reading explained that JRE
would not work in FC4. I think the warning may have appeared when I
was downloading or installing Mozilla. But I did not jot it down.
IIRC, I had kicked the power cable and had to restart, but was
uncertain how I had found the warning in the first place and could
not find it again. The warning said that instead of JRE, the FC4
user has to use a specific something else (*not* Sun) if he wants
Java. Well, I do not know that he *has to* use that specific
something else. I do not recall if the wording said that only that
one thing would work. It just specified one particular thing that
*would* work, and one particular thing (Sun) that would *not* work.
But what I *do* recall clearly is that it specified that JRE would
not work with the combination of FC4 and Mozilla, or maybe it said
that Mozilla would not work with the combination of JRE and FC4. But
you get the idea. It clearly specified Mozilla, JRE, and FC4.
Actually, it may have specified the entire Mozilla base, including
Fifefox and the other one that Mozilla is changing names to (since the
Mozilla suite itself is destined for the scrap heap in favor of
splitting it into Firefox and Thunderbird). IIRC, another group is
going to continue working on the combined Mozilla Suite though under a
different name (which I don't recall at the moment).
You know, now that I've started to stretch and exercise my memory of
this warning, I seem to recall that it did *not* come when installing or
downloading Mozilla. I don't think it was kicking the power cord that
caused me not to be able to find it again. I think the warning was
somewhere in the installation of FC4 where I did not have the ability to
bookmark it or print it. Anyone know of an easy way of searching all
the possible hiding places? If this vague recollection is correct, the
warning may or may not be on my hard drive, but almost certainly would
be on the install CD, perhaps even in a zipped file?
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