problems w/ Java on Alpha

[Gustaf Erikson <gustafe@home.se>]

I've downloaded the Compaq beta SDK from

http://www.compaq.com/java/download/jdk_linux/1.3.1/index.html

I converted the RPM's to debs with alien, and installed them in the
order described in the instructions.

However, when I try checking if java works, I get:

[ger@rhino:~ ]$ /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version
/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin/alpha/native_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: libcpml.so: cannot read file data: No such file or directory

'libcpml.so' is one of the libs installed. It lives in /usr/lib: 

[ger@rhino:~ ]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libcpml.*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 307      root           33 Mar 19 23:45 /usr/lib/libcpml.a -> ./compaq/cpml-5.1.0/libcpml_ev5.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 307      root           34 Mar 19 23:45 /usr/lib/libcpml.so -> ./compaq/cpml-5.1.0/libcpml_ev5.so

I'm new to Alpha, but I've heard that the support for shared libs
isn't as simple in Alpha as on Intel. Could this be the problem here?

System info: 

[ger@rhino:~ ]$ uname -a; cat /etc/debian_version
Linux rhino 2.2.18pre21 #1 Wed Dec 13 09:17:21 CET 2000 alpha unknown
2.2

Any suggestions?

tia,

/g.

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