Installing Sun Java

[AK49er]

Hello, i just put F11 64 bit KDE on my computer last night, and am enjoying it so far. I am trying to install everything i want and have been successful up to this point. I have been trying to follow this guide for installing Sun Java http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/161/26/1/12/ my problem is, i got through the first command to install the libraries but the second command on creating the links does not work so i am stuck. Does anybody know first how to get through the rest of this guide and if not, did i mess anything up running that first command. Thank You for your time.

[scottro]

I've changed the title of the thread so that someone who knows the answer will be more likely to help. (Very bad idea to give vague titles, please take a look at the forum guidelines, linked at the top of the page.)

I hate to lecture when I can't give an answer, but I'd also suggest more use of sentences, capitalization of "I", etc. As it is, your post is hard to read, and that will make some people just skip it. (If English isn't your first language, then I most sincerely apologize, but it seems fluent enough so that I suspect you are a native English speaker and *do* know better.)

[AK49er]

WOW, i appreciate the English lesson, and for changing the title. I hope it will bring some help my way. I have been using Linux for about 2 weeks now. I first tried with Mint 7 and broke it. I guess i like to tinker around a little too much. So i moved on to F11 last night. But more importantly i am trying to see if there is good community support for a noob such as myself. Because learning Linux takes patience and time. However i do not have much of either, so maybe its going to have to be Windows 7 for me instead. Although i really would like to get away from M$.

[scottro]

Well, it sometimes takes awhile. It often depends upon if someone is familiar with your issue. If it's a common issue, they might tell you to search--I haven't tried a search for sun java on these forums, so don't know if that's good or a waste of time--I have, in the past, blithely told people to search, then tried the obvious search terms myself to see that I'd given them poor advice.

For what it's worth, the latest opensourced versions of Java on Fedora are really good. I don't know if you've tried them and they didn't work, but if not--it *might* be worth just trying them first.

Wanting to tinker is good, it's a way to learn, but of course, can interfere with having a working system. I like to think there is good community support here for newcomers, but Ubuntu's community might be better for that, for a variety of reasons--two of them being Ubuntu is so popular that it has more users, and also, because I think it's aimed more at newcomers than is Fedora. But that's just my opinion, I haven't been on their forums in awhile and don't know the quality of help.

At any rate, welcome to the forums and let's hope someone comes up with a helpful answer soon--as per what I wrote above, I haven't had a need for Sun java on Fedora, which is why I can't do anything but change a thread title for you.

[scottro]

By coincidence, a fedora tutorial site was mentioned in another thread, and I see they have some info on sun java.

Here's the main page, you can see it in the contents.
http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Fedora11

[Hlingler]

When executing the commands listed in such tutorials, adjust the command to reflect the exact version of Sun Java that you actually downloaded. For example: the guide you refer to lists jre1.6.0_14, but I see that we're up to jre1.6.0_16.

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