Java ide installation (Sun)

[Haim Ashkenazi]

John Dangler wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:59 +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>> 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).
> Yes, I do have javac (among others) there.  So, for the sun
> installation, would I put the /usr/lib/java-1.5.0-sun/bin as the
> location of the jdk?
no, you put /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun as the jdk location (without the
bin).

Bye
-- 
Haim