2006. május 24. 16:26, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a > search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. > > I downloaded the jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin file, and ran the > install. I tried it in both /usr/local and then again in my > /home/myusername space. In neither case did it install correctly. When > I try to run javac or anything else (install eclipse) it can't find > the java install. > > Are there no deb files, or can anyone help me to get this file installed? > > Thanks, Hi Ed!
I presume that you are referring to Sun's jdk. In this case if you've installed it under /usr/local, then you should have a directory called "jdk1.5.0_06" (or similar :). The problem with your setup is that the binaries aren't in your PATH. You have a lot of options, and I'm going to write just a few: - Adjust your path (refer to your shell's documentation in order to make it permanent) to contain "/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/bin" and "/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/bin" - Symlink the executables to a directory which is searched after binaries (usually /usr/local/bin). (mixing this with creating a symlink under /usr/local/ named java which points to your jdk1.5.0_06 directory, will have the advantage of not braking the symlinks of you install a newer version of sun's java, you just have to redirect the java symlink) There are of corse plenty other possibilities which you can adopt... HTH, Daniel -- LeVA
