As I said before, sun java is available in ubuntu Synaptic - no need for this complicated installation. This is true for Gutsy, and I think also for Feisty.
Also - did you read the wiki installation instructions? As far as I can see, these cover the problems you have encountered (and if they don't, I hope you will update them once you are done). David Vincent-Jones wrote: > Thanks Viktor for the help ... I will thrash with this in the clod light > of tomorrow and let you know how it goes. > > David > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Viktor Cerovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jchat] Linux install > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:11:40 -0800 (PST) > > Hi David, > >>From the provided error message: > > David Vincent-Jones-3 wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ~/j601/jw >> [...] >> at javax.swing.JComponent.setNextFocusableComponent(libgcj.so.81) >> [...] >> > It looks to me that jw is still using GNU Java (libgcj). > > I've just installed J yesterday on GNU/Linux (a.k.a Debian), including > SUN Java, and jw so far works fine. The operation should be doable > by GUI. Here are the steps: > > (no root privileges are needed to do this) > > 1. Download the appropriate package > from http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp > 2. make a directory somewhere, e.g SUNjava in your home directory, > ~/SUNJava. > 3. copy there the downloaded program and run it. This creates one directory > (let's say jre1.6.0_64, so it is ~/SUNjava/jre1.6.0_64) > 4. modify one line in ~/j601/jw from > java <the rest> > to: > ~/SUNjava/jre1.6.0_64/bin/java <the rest> > ("Terminal stuff" line for this step would be: > sed -i "s#^java #~/SUNjava/jre1.6.0_64/bin/java #" ~/j601/wd > ) > > That's it. jw should start up J's IDE using SUN's Java and work fine now. > > Notice that this whole installation does not change Java that the rest of > your system is using, nor does the above installation get recorded > in your package management system. > > I hope this helps. > > Viktor > > PS: > So far I have been very impressed by the way that Ubuntu handles the >> installation of programs without any need to resort to 'Terminal Stuff'; >> maybe one day J will install the same way. >> > Or, for that matter, Java. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
