Here's the error: $ java /usr/local/jdk1.2/jre/bin/realpath: /usr/local/jdk1.2/jre/bin/i386/realpath: No such file or directory /usr/local/jdk1.2/jre/bin/realpath: /usr/local/jdk1.2/jre/bin/i386/realpath: No such file or directory /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/java: /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java: No such file or directory /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/java: /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java: No such file or directory I get the error if I install either the Glibc2.0 or Glibc2.1 version. I've looked in the given directories and, sure enough, the files are there with correct permissions (world read, world execute, etc.). To install the JDK I bunzip2'd the archive then did: $ cd /usr/local $ tar xf jdk1.2.whatever.tar Should the JDK be unpacked elsewhere? Why am I getting this error (the Blackdown JDK port of v1.1.7 installed just fine many moons ago). Here's some system information: Linux Slackware version 4.0. $ set | grep PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/games: .:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/jdk1.2/bin:~/bin $ uname -a Linux caitlin 2.2.6 #20 Tue Apr 27 15:23:25 CDT 1999 i686 unknown $ ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.2/jre/bin/i386 total 14 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:46 green_threads/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:46 native_threads/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11862 Jun 4 00:43 realpath* $ ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.2/ total 4404 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 915 Jan 26 1999 COPYRIGHT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8605 Jan 26 1999 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5864 Jan 26 1999 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 608 Jun 4 02:51 README.PRE-RELEASE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19431 Jan 26 1999 README.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11688 Jun 4 02:51 README.linux -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6422 Jun 4 02:51 README.linux.src drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:50 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:50 demo/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:50 include/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:50 include-old/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:50 jre/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 4 02:52 lib/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4427339 Jun 4 02:51 src.jar $ ls -l jdk* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45168640 Sep 21 15:14 jdk1.2pre-v2-glibc21.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44298240 Sep 21 15:13 jdk1.2pre-v2.tar $ ldconfig -v | grep libc ldconfig: warning: /lib/libdl-2.0.7.so is not a shared library, skipping libcurses.so.1 => libcurses.so.1.0.0 libc.so.5 => libc.so.5.4.46 libcom_err.so.2 => libcom_err.so.2.0 libc.so.4 => libc.so.4.7.6 libcurses.so.0 => libcurses.so.0.1.2 The warning on ldconfig bothers me a bit more than slightly (I had a partial HD crash and wound up reinstalling most of Linux v4.0 again, including the JDK several times from scratch). I sure hope I'm missing something simple here. Thanks for any hints as to what I'm doing wrong! Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]