This might or might not be useful info for you but I have a couple different Java VMs on my machine so I created various scripts to add the path to the java.class to my PATH - setsunclasspath...set ibmclasspath...setoracleclasspath... which I call from my programs and scripts. That way they're temporary. The thing to remember is that you have to run the scripts by typing a period then a space and then the script name. Like this: . setsunclasspath That's what tells the script to run in the current context of where it's running from rather than in a new environment. Brady > I downloaded and installed the j2sdk (1.4.1). I'm wondering what needs > to be done next to get java fully set up. > > Either the java bin directory needs to be on the system path, or I need > to set up links to java and javac in /usr/bin (or something). Is either > way better? (and what file would I edit to have the java directory > permanantly be part of the system path (for all users)) > > Secondly, all the files (including java and javac) in the java/bin > folder are shell scripts. I would've thought they would be binaries. > As it is, some makefiles I have can't access java because it would need > to be ./java. Maybe I'm missing something. How have others of you > configured the jsdk on your machine? > > thanks > justin > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Brady Hegberg <bradyh at bitstream.net> _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list