On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
So I haven't yet tried installing the non-rpm binary, that's probably
next on the list. But, I found that running 'java -jar myapp.jar',
and I changed the symlink in /etc/alternatives/java to point to
/usr/java/default/bin/java. Now, running 'java -version' from the
command line tells me I have "1.6.0_01".
Now I missed this before, but when I go to the java.com test page to
see if I have it installed in Firefox, it creates a little text file
in my home directory called 'plugin_stack.trace'.
$ cat plugin_stack.trace
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
com.sun.deploy.config.Config
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(AppletViewer.java:271)
at sun.plugin.navig.motif.Plugin.doit(Plugin.java:141)
at sun.plugin.navig.motif.Plugin.start(Plugin.java:104)
I did a google search for "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not
initialize class com.sun.deploy.config.Config" and found this page:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6542512
Basically, it says RHEL5 is not supported because of a conflict in
some c++ dynamic library. So, to everyone who responded, what version
of SL do you run? I've tried this on SL5 and Fedora7 with the same
results. I'm not married to them, though.
I can confirm that using the non-rpm installed version of 1.6.0_01 seems
to work fine for me with firefox 1.5.0.12 in SL5 on the i386 platform.
At least if I point firefox at:
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
it reports the right stuff (I'd cut/paste it but the applet it runs
doesn't let me).
-- Jon
