Java ide installation (Sun)

[Haim Ashkenazi]

John Dangler wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 08:27 +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>> John Dangler wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm trying to install Sun Studio 8.1 .
>> > I've run update-alternatives, and selected the sun java 1-5r11 as my
>> > jdk.
>> > 
>> > During the first part of the install, the sun studio installer script
>> > asks for the location of the jdk (it doesn't find one on the system).
>> > 
>> > I'm trying to find the location of the jdk, but can't seem to locate
>> > it. apt-cache show sun-java5-jdk doesn't tell me where it was
>> > installed, and a locate sun-java5-jdk shows 98% of the entries in
>> > /usr/share/doc, so I don't think it's there.
>> > 
>> > 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")
>> just run "update-java-alternatives -l" and you'll get a list of java
>> virtual machines installed on your computer. you should probably make
>> sure that the active one is the one from sun if you want to run sun
>> studio.
> root at croatus:/opt# update-java-alternatives -l
> java-1.5.0-sun 53 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
> 
> If I read this right, this shows the location of the java virtual
> machine (jvm).  Is the jdk (developers kit) also located here?
> I would think that they would be different, but I could very well be
> wrong on that point.
If you've installed the sun-jdk package then this is the jdk. you can run
the following command "ls /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/javac" to make
sure you have javac (which is a part of the jdk, but not the jre).

Bye
-- 
Haim