Re: How to install jdk1.5?

[Ed <eddythejekyll@gmail.com>]

Thanks. I've been in a windows world lately and have forgotten so much
simple stuff.

Here's what I did:
I modified the .bash_profile with

# set PATH so it includes Java stuff if it exists
if [ -d /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06 ] ; then
   PATH=:"${PATH}":/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/bin:/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/bin
fi

Thanks again.

Ed

Daniel wrote:

I presume that you are referring to Sun's jdk. In this case if
you've=20 installed it under /usr/local, then you should have a
directory called=20 "jdk1.5.0_06" (or similar :).
The problem with your setup is that the binaries aren't in your PATH.
You have a lot of options, and I'm going to write just a few:

=2D Adjust your path (refer to your shell's documentation in order to
make = it=20
permanent) to contain "/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/bin" and=20
"/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/bin"

=2D Symlink the executables to a directory which is searched after
binaries= =20 (usually /usr/local/bin). (mixing this with creating a
symlink=20 under /usr/local/ named java which points to your
jdk1.5.0_06 directory, wi= ll=20 have the advantage of not braking the
symlinks of you install a newer versi= on=20 of sun's java, you just
have to redirect the java symlink)

There are of corse plenty other possibilities which you can adopt...

HTH,

Daniel

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Ed