Java ide installation (Sun)

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Tue Feb 20 07:09:50 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:33 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:59:30 -0500
> John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Does anyone know what location the installer might want?
> > (I've read through the installation docs, but they don't say anything
> > other than the obvious -- "if the dialog shows no jdk, just navigate to
> > where your jdk is installed and provide that path")
> > 
>  Try   dpkg -L sun-java5-jdk | less
.
.
.
/usr/share/doc/sun-java5-jdk
.
.
.
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08/jre
.
.
.
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08/bin
.
.
.
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08/lib

Since all of this is in a dir labeled "jvm", I would think that it point
s to the java virtual machine.  Is that the same as the jdk (developers
kit) ?


> 
> I think you will find the files in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5*  where * refers
> to your version.  ( I used the apt-file utility to find that path - I don't
> have the jdk installed )
> 
> Peter
> 





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