Why didn't you just run java-config?? It would have done it all for you in a matter of 
minutes...



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> From: Mark Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where to find "jar" program?
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> On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 9:25 am, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
> >     Martin,
> >
> >     You need a java package and java-config installed, and 
> you need to
> > execute java-config to set the system java virtual machine.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Jose
> >
> >     PS: By the way, I've seen this question a dozen times, shouldn't
> > this be included in a FAQ or something?
> >
> > martin wrote:
> > >hi!
> > >
> > >i tried to update the system, but doing a "emerge -u 
> system" stops at the
> > > package "sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2" with an error... it says 
> it needs a "jar"
> > > program, but does not find it in $PATH...
> > >
> 
> I had exactly the same problem, found that java is installed but in a 
> different location to where emerge was looking.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark # whereis jar
> jar: /bin/jar /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin/jar
> 
> My fix was to symlink /bin/jar to the /opt/blah binary.  I 
> then came up 
> against an error where emerge cannot find the java include 
> files.  I have 
> added a few dir's to my $PATH in /etc/profile but as yet have 
> not found a 
> solution (ran out of time).
> 
> - -- 
>       Mark
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