java for Office51 (was Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux)

[Tom Allard <m1tca00@frb.gov>]

The standard slink jdk only includes green_threads, but Star Office 
requires native_threads.

You can get everything you need from:

  ftp://ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/java/JDK-1.1.7/i386/glibc/v1a/

(or try other mirrors, see:
    http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html)


You need:
  jre_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tgz
  jre_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86-native.tgz
  
You might be able to install the .deb and just unpack the -native.tgz
tarball on top of it.  I didn't try that.

I unpacked the two tarballs in /opt/java and my ~/Office51/sofficerc
has at the top:

[Java]
Home=/opt/java/jre117_v1a
Version=1.1.7
RuntimeLib=/opt/java/jre117_v1a/lib/i386/native_threads/libjava.so
SystemClasspath=/opt/java/jre117_v1a/lib/rt.jar:/opt/java/jre117_v1a/lib/i18n.jar:/opt/java/jre117_v1a/lib
Java=1

[NOTE: That SystemClasspath needs to be one line in case your mail
reader wrapperd the long line.]

I think I did the java installation through Star Office, but you can
just exit Star Office and add the above directly to your sofficerc.

> (or what the java support would do if i had it)

Your Star Office web browser will be able to play java applets.

rgds-- TA  (tallard@frb.gov)
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