Installed IBM/SUN JDK on OpenSUSE... now what?
I am very sure this is a stupid question, the real question is why these days google are not so efficient as I expect. I installed OpenSUSE and the first surprise is there is no JRE. Seems there is a script to manipulate Gnu Java Compiler to make it work like a JRE but obviously it doesn't work, jedit simply complain and dead there. I guess I need a more 'traditional' JRE. IBM JRE comes to my mind first because it is smaller to download. After grabbed the 50MB rpm from IBM (registered myself too, I don't hate registration that much) it simply cannot install with a simple message 'package transaction failed' (said yast). I thought that might mean some conflict so I removed Gnu Java Complier by using yast and ignored a lot of real conflicts (e.g. OpenOffice depend on Gnu Java Compiler), and try install ibm jdk again, still same error message. And I try install it in command line, hoping to get more error message # rpm -i ibm-java2-i386-sdk-5.0-1.0.i386.rpm And I was told: package ibm-java2-i386-sdk-5.0-1.0.i386.rpm already installed Ah, yes, and now I found it in /opt/ibm/java2-i386-5.0 Now what? How can I make jedit run? Directly run 'jedit' gets message 'failed to set JAVACMD' I thought perhaps all I need to do is to add /opt/ibm/java2-i386-50/jre/bin to $PATH but after I did that, jedit complains: Cannot find java class: error: (It's true that there are no class name after the colon and no error message after second colon) How do I go on? Then I thought perhaps IBM JDK is not good enough and I spent a lot of time to get the Sun JDK installer and installed it (by executing the downloaded .bin file) and included /opt/SUNWappserver/jdk/jre/bin in $PATH and then, jedit complains: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: error: How do I go on? I am thinking whether or not installing OpenSUSE (rather then Novell SUSE) is a big mistake to me. I am very busy and keeps a lot of things to do on my list and I am not a typical developer / administrator who think it is fun to configure and debug a system (that's why I choose SUSE). If generally OpenSUSE is going to left me further stuff to debug and configure then I probably need to re-install Novell SUSE. Sincerely waiting for your advice (my daily work involve mostly only desktop applications, OOO, no server use, a little development). -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales: 0086 10 84606011 Inland business: http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 Sent from Pine: http://www.washington.edu/pine/
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On Sat, 27 May 2006, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
I am thinking whether or not installing OpenSUSE (rather then Novell SUSE) is a big mistake to me. I am very busy and keeps a lot of things to do on my list and I am not a typical developer / administrator who think it is fun to configure and debug a system (that's why I choose SUSE). If generally OpenSUSE is going to left me further stuff to debug and configure then I probably need to re-install Novell SUSE. Sincerely waiting for your advice (my daily work involve mostly only desktop applications, OOO, no server use, a little development).
After sent the email I read it again and I think I over-streesed it. I mean no offensive by saying 'big mistake' and I should not say it that way. I simply spent two hours on this issue and get a bit nervouse if there are other issues ahead. And wish everybody a good weekend.
On Saturday 27 May 2006 09:49, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
How do I go on?
I am thinking whether or not installing OpenSUSE (rather then Novell SUSE) is a big mistake to me.
Hi again Zhang Weiwu! No, you did not make a mistake. SUSE 10.0 is great (running it right now) and jEdit is my *favorite* 'editor'... of course, is much more with all the plug-ins. You need to add online installation sources providing packages that aren't included in the .iso files. Here are my installation sources. I hope you remember how to undo, or reverse, the changes you have made... it will make this process much easier if you have no conflicts in your existing installation... * ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java * http://packman.rsync.zmi.at/suse/10.0 ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/inst-source-extra ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0/ You will probably have better download speeds if you use mirrors that are nearer to you. Nice hearing from you! Dog treat: X--X regards, Carl
Hello Carl. thank you for your kind help time after time. Right now we have a Ultra-sparc server sitting in the office (very stable network, part of China Education Network) and many people in this comany runs SUSE (different versions though). I further would like to ask the internships (for network administrator job role) to install a good mirror so that the company as well as the whole university (we are in Xiamen University) can benifit from having a good source of packages and stop the pain of trying get the right package. Thus I'll show them this list of mirrors to ask them to make one similiar. I would like to open this service to China (but only in China because we pay extra fee for opening any service to foreign countries) too, if there is a good guide on how to mirror these good stuff available on the internet, please point out that too. If there are no such good document, I can ask them simply to mirror everyone listed below (suppose they are less then 160GB). On Sat, 27 May 2006, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 09:49, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
How do I go on?
I am thinking whether or not installing OpenSUSE (rather then Novell SUSE) is a big mistake to me.
Hi again Zhang Weiwu!
No, you did not make a mistake. SUSE 10.0 is great (running it right now) and jEdit is my *favorite* 'editor'... of course, is much more with all the plug-ins.
You need to add online installation sources providing packages that aren't included in the .iso files.
Here are my installation sources. I hope you remember how to undo, or reverse, the changes you have made... it will make this process much easier if you have no conflicts in your existing installation...
* ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java *
http://packman.rsync.zmi.at/suse/10.0 ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/inst-source-extra ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0/
You will probably have better download speeds if you use mirrors that are nearer to you.
Nice hearing from you! Dog treat: X--X
regards,
Carl
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On Saturday 27 May 2006 10:13, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Hello Carl. thank you for your kind help time after time.
Again, you're very welcome Zhang Weiwu! This is just a note for the list that I've sent a mirror setup contact to Zhang Weiwu directly. regards, Carl
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