Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie does Tomcat (or not, as the case may be...)
Thanks Danny, I've now got Java working correctly and can compile away... Another conceptual question: Is it usual 'the Linux way' to have to manually add/edit env vars like this? Should an RPM do it for you? If so, then should I stop considering RPMs as being the equivalent of Windows MSI files and more as a glorified UNZIP/Put-things-in-the-right-folders kind of thing? A YaST question: Is installing via YaST EXACTLY the same as doing it yourself from the RPMs? Ta again Steve Danny Owens wrote: Hi Steve, Once you have done the rpm installation, you can manually check that java has been installed to /usr/java/j2sdk[version]/ (please ignore your jre for now as it is not needed by tomcat) Now set up the environment variables like so; JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk[version] export JAVA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH (You can place these in /etc/profile.local on SuSe when you know it works.) You can test java and javac at the command line. If you install tomcat you will also probably need ANT - both Tomcat and ANT have their own environment variables that need set (see install docs). You will also need to set a CLASSPATH environment variable if you put any java classes in non-standard places. I hope this helps... best, Danny Steve Logan wrote: rpm -Uvh jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.rpm Did this for both the JRE and JDK. Should this set the $JAVA_whatever environment vars or do I need to set them manually? I'm still confused as to why nothing appeared to happen when I tried to install with YaST?? Steve -- --- Dr Steve Logan, engineering software t: 01764-650085 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.bigsmoke.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie does Tomcat (or not, as the case may be...)
rpm -Uvh jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.rpm Did this for both the JRE and JDK. Should this set the $JAVA_whatever environment vars or do I need to set them manually? I'm still confused as to why nothing appeared to happen when I tried to install with YaST?? Steve -- --- Dr Steve Logan, engineering software t: 01764-650085 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.bigsmoke.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve -- --- Dr Steve Logan, engineering software t: 01764-650085 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.bigsmoke.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on
Flushed with my success earlier today (thank-you folks) I think I'll try a bit harder to get into this Linux malarkey. So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book for introducing a moderately expert Windows user to SuSE? My background is engineering and programming rather than networks. However I have built a number of PCs and networks and am (touch wood) not too bad at the hard techy stuff. It seems to me that there's a different mindset that Windows folks needs to be learn to get around a Linux box? Any book recommendations then? Ta Steve (PS I like books cos I can read them on a train). -- --- Dr Steve Logan, engineering software t: 01764-650085 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.bigsmoke.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
