On Friday 25 October 2002 11:44, Erik Browaldh wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Im a newcommer in the Linux-world, therefore, all kind of help may be > help :-) > > I have problems installing these self-extracting files > j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin > j2sdk-1_4_1_01linux-i586.bin > > I've put them under /root/usr/local , where I try to extract them > after reading the license-agreement, unpacking process starts > > but when trying to write a Javaprogram, javac cant be found, why??
because your shell does not know where the javac binary is located. I'd suggest you extract the files to /usr/local, then add the jdk bin directory to you path, like this: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/bin and then export your classpath like this: export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/jre/lib/rt.jar:. some applications need some more environment variables so you might have to to do the following as well: export JAVA_PATH=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/ export JDK_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/ (it probably makes sense if you put all this stuff in some of your shell startup files, like ~/.bashrc for bash or ~/.cshrc for tcsh) cheers, Yven -- Yven Johannes Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de