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On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:51, Stan Goodman wrote: > I wish to use the Jikes Java compiler. I have read the Jikes home page, and > discovered that this application is said to be supplied with SuSE, which > was good news. > > I was unable to find "Jikes*" on my openSuSE v10.2; The only related file > present is jikes.vim; this appears to be a plugin for vim (that was a > surprise -- it seems to be a well-kept secret how one uses these plugins), > along with similar files for other languages and utillities. Given that one > invokes jikes with the name "jikes", this led me to believe that jikes, > although bundled, is not installed. > > I therefore turned to YaST > Software > Software Management, and tried to > install jikes. This did locate the application, and highlighted it. After I > clicked on Accept, YaST asked me for CD1, but did not give me an > opportunity to insert the CD. At the bottom of the YaST screen, "Next" and > "Back" were greyed out, and the only active button was "Abort". A small > dialog box appeared , asking me if I was interested in installing any more > packages, and I answere "No", pretty much out of spite. > > How, if at all, might I get jikes on SuSE? At the moment, it seems a more > efficient use of my time to do this work on another OS. > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > 1975 Home-brew with ASM-80 > 1978 CP/M > 1981 MS-DOS > 1987 Quarterdeck > 1992 OS/2 - eComStation > 2007 LINUX openSuSE > > Thirty-two years (and counting) of happy, Windows-free computing -- Bogdan Cristea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
