On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 02:57, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2004 03:38 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:20, Thereidos wrote: > > > Dnia czw 22. lipca 2004 00:44, Todd Slater napisał: > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On > > > > > their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: > > > > > > > > > > Execute Opcion Font Viewer > > > > > ... For Linux users use the command "java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in > > > > > console/terminal/shortcut. > > > > > > > > > > When I fire that command in the command line, I get: > > > > > > > > > > "bash: java: command not found" > > > > > > > > > > I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how > > > > > to install/use these kind of applications? > > > > > > > > Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full path > > > > to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. > > > > You could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. > > > > > > > > Todd > > > > > > Or simply add /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin (or whathever java version you > > > have) to your PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile... > > > You could also do > > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin > > > > Sorry guys, but I'm missing the point here. I have java installed in > > /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05. > > In /home/<user>/.bash_profile I added the path. It looks like this: > > > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin > > > > I did the check with Mozilla if Java was running and it did. This is all > > I did. Now i downloaded Opcion_v1.1.1.jar and it is somewhere in my > > downloads directory. What should I do to use it. Should I place it in a > > java path (if so, where exactly)? Should I type the command "java -jar > > Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in the command line? > > > > I'm afraid you have to spell it out to me... > > Open a terminal and cd to the directory where the file is and type, > java -jar the_name_of_file.jar > HTH > > Regards, > Dan Gordon
Dan, I did that, but probably I had to reboot my system after installing java... This time it works like a charm! Thanks. Cheers, Marco
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