Aaaargh! See below: On Friday 17 May 2002 10:30, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Brian W. Carver; <bwcarver@earthlink.net> on 17 May, 2002 wrote:

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I had the exact same problem as John on SuSE 8.0, no Java Runtime Environment found by OOo, but no problem in SO5.2. I read your solution with eager anticipation, went to Yast2, and see that java2 is already installed on my system. Why then can't OOo find it?

AFAIK they use different JAVA version and JAVA variables If you have both of the JAVA's installed 1.1.8 and 1.3

open a terminal window and issue the command

source setJava Java2

and then in the same window enter the executable name for OO and see if it works

I don't have StarOffice installed, so I don't know if it would find jre, or even if I have a jre installed. Anyway, I was installing OO and hit the message "No Java Runtime Environment was found which can be used by OpenOffice.org", with an offer to install 00 without Java support. Java support was important enough that it's assumed as a default in the installer, therefore I want it (not because I know what use I might have for it..., but just because somebody smarter than I am thought it important enough to make it a default setting). I read this e-mail thread, aborted the OO installation, and issued the the command you suggest (source setJava Java2) and got no error message. I then re-ran ./startup for OpenOffice, and got exactly the same problem again -- "No Java runtime environment...:". A search of my entire drive for *jre* gave a bunch of hits (see end of message for complete list), most of which were docs, but one of which was a directory: /usr/lib/SunJava2-1.3.1/jre Under that, were ..../jre /bin .../jre/lib and .../jre/plugin directories. I tried pointing the OO installer at every damn one of them, with no success. Ok, so I'm all screwed up here. In spite of what I told YaST2 when I first installed SuSE 8, which was: "Install anything that even smells like Java...", I probably don't really have it, do I? Just some useless files and directories with "jre" in their names, but not the real stuff. Right? How would I know? Is there an rpm -q command that gives "Tell me if there's anything jre-like installed"??? BELOW is the result of a Konqueror "Find file" for files named *jre*: file:/usr/lib/SunJava2-1.3.1/jre file:/usr/share/doc/packages/java2/jre file:/home/me/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/jre.desktop file:/opt/kde2/share/apps/quanta/doc/php/function.hw-array2objrec.html file:/opt/kde2/share/apps/quanta/doc/php/function.hw-objrec2array.html file:/usr/lib/SunJava1-1.1.8/bin/i686/green_threads/jre file:/usr/lib/SunJava1-1.1.8/bin/i686/green_threads/jre_g file:/usr/lib/SunJava1-1.1.8/bin/i686/native_threads/jre file:/usr/lib/SunJava1-1.1.8/bin/i686/native_threads/jre_g file:/usr/lib/SunJava1-1.1.8/bin/jre file:/usr/lib/SunJava1-1.1.8/bin/jre_g file:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/jreuter_add_rem_dasd.html file:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/jreuter_imap_filemax.html file:/usr/share/doc/susehilf/raw_pacs/en/IBMJava2-JRE file:/usr/share/doc/susehilf/raw_pacs/en/java2-jre file:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.42/doc/jrefhtml.xsl file:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.42/docsrc/jrefhtml.xsl file:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.42/docsrc/xsl2jref.xsl -end- PS: Why NOT hijack this thread? To me, it's the same problem except that I'm running SuSE 8 instead of SuSE 7.3. Does that make some kind of difference?

* Kevin McLauchlan; <kmclauchlan@chrysalis-its.com> on 13 Jun, 2002 wrote:

I read this e-mail thread, aborted the OO installation, and issued the the command you suggest (source setJava Java2) and got no error message. I then re-ran ./startup for OpenOffice, and got exactly the same problem again -- "No Java runtime environment...:".

Strage as I have both Java1 and Java2 installed and I am using this command continiously. One thing you have to remember is when you give source setJava Java2 command it is only valid for that terminal so You have to runthe OO installer from that terminal. Since you have no error messages what does "echo $JAVA_HOME" result to ? -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

A post by Jonathan Wilson on 3 May touched on this, and just in time for my test install of SO6 yesterday. OO/SO will not recognise 1.1.8 at all, and Chris' points below both explain that, and provide a clever way of dealing with it. For those like my namesake, though, who just want OO/SO to work with Java2, the short reason for why it won't see it is that the symlink java in /usr/lib is pointing to 1.1.8. Before or during the install, therefore, open a terminal, and enter the following: su (+password) cd /usr/lib mv java java1 ln -s SunJava2-1.3.1 java exit OO/SO should now see Java2, and you can continue with the install. HTH Kevin

I ran into a similar problem with InterBase - it requires JDK 1.1.8. Here's what to do:

1. run setup -net as root. (may already be done) 2. run setup as a user, and select any JDK you can (or none). 3. edit the file $HOME/OpenOffice.org1.0/user/config/javarc a. replace "RequiredVersion=1.3.0" with "RequiredVersion=1.2.1" (or whatever version you need to install). b. delete 1.2.1 from "ExcludeVersion=1.1.6 1.1.7b 1.1.7B 1.1.8 1.2.1" if needed. 4. run /path/to/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/jvmsetup and you should be able to select the desired version of the JDK.

Hi Brian, Yoiu may have seen that I got my Open Office up & running after following Harry's advice re installing Java2. I am running SuSE 7.3 and when I went to install the Java2 I noticed that there were a number of Java packages, so I ended up just searching the complete package list for Java2, fortunately this brought up just one package so I selected that. Good luck with yours. John

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I had the exact same problem as John on SuSE 8.0, no Java Runtime Environment found by OOo, but no problem in SO5.2. I read your solution with eager anticipation, went to Yast2, and see that java2 is already installed on my system. Why then can't OOo find it?

Berge, Harry ten wrote: | install the package java2. This is needed by OO. It is present within 7.3, | so YaST2 will do the job.... | | Regards Harry | | |>-----Original Message----- |>From: John Blue [SMTP:jblue@bestpond.com] |>Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:48 PM |>To: suse-linux-e@suse.com |>Subject: [SLE] Newbie problem Open Office & Java Suse V 7.3 |> |>I have been moving along slowly with Linux V 7.3, managing to get |>some things working on a PC dual boot system with NT4. I have Samba |>almost there ( a couple of questions will probably arise after some |>more reading). |> |>Can now access the net, via a PC with ADSL connection (NT4), and this |>works fine, so I decided to download Open Office V 1.0, (which I have |>been using under Windows). So I got the Linux file downloaded and |>started the installation. |> |>My initial problem is that the install process indicated "No Java |>Environment Found". I tried downloading a java runtime from the SuSE |>CD and re-booted, same error message. |> |>I had not installed Star Office 5.2, but decided to do that just to |>see if it would install. Yes I could install it, and it found the |>java environment. |> |>The installation I have is SuSE V 7.3 as per the CD's plus an online |>update of patches to the installation. The only "outside" software is |>Open Office. |> |>Can some kind user offer advice as to how I can troubleshoot this |>problem, or provide the basic steps to resolve this installation |>process. Please bear with me in that I am still learning basic Linux |>commands, and am still ploughing my way through How To's and man |>pages. (As an aside I am almost really ready to commit to V8.0 |>Professional). |> |>John |> |>John Blue, |>PO Box 542 |>Mawson ACT 2607 |>Australia |>email: jblue@bestpond.com |>Fax: +61 2 6291 1119 |> |>Thought for the day: |> Intuition (n): an uncanny sixth sense which tells people |> that they are right, whether they are or not. |> |> |> |>-- |>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com |>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com |> |>Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com | |

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