Thanks for the tip in the FAQ about removing the libraries when installing under Slackware. Because you asked for posts about installating under Slackware, here it is 8^) I'm on an older distribution - Slackware 3.3 - but I have installed the GlibC libraries (2.0.6 ??). The Linux kernel is 2.0.29. The libc5 is 5.4.17 I downloaded the plain runtime tarball (version 1.1.16v2 - libc5 version), installed and ran it. The problem was that after running ldconfig, the system could not load libjava.so - all the other java libraries (ie libawt.so) were correctly located and reported by ldd on the bin/jre binary, but libjava.so would not co-operate. After removing the libc.so.5.4.33 and libdl.so.1 from your installation and re-running ldconfig - *success* BTW - my system has libdl.so.2... but I'm not sure that isn't a part of the glibc installation... Thanks again, James
