Java ide installation (Sun)

[John Dangler]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:46 +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> 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).
Well, it seems to have liked it... it's installing files at the moment.
I'll let you know in a few minutes if it works or not...
Thanks for the help with this. I need to get it running as soon as
possible.  I'm trying to learn java so I can put together a client app
that connects to a mysql db...

> 
> Bye
> -- 
> Haim
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