Re: Help - Java for FC2 and Mozilla

[Mark Knecht <markknecht gmail com>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:29:53 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:43:46 -0800, Rick Stevens
> <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:
> > Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >    On my Gentoo laptop I have no problems running Java within Firefox
> > > and viewing some investment sites I need to use that have Java stuff
> > > embedded in their pages. Under FC2 I have no similar success. Can
> > > anyone point me toward some RPMs and installation instructions that
> > > will actually work on this platform?
> >
> > I've used the standard Sun java stuff (http://www.java.com) and had no
> > problems on FC2 or FC3--even FC3 on an Opteron.
> 
> Rick,
>    Thanks. I've downloaded the bin file. I'm a little troubled by the
> installation instructions:
> 
> 3) Change to the directory in which you want to install. Type:
> cd <directory path name>
> For example, to install the software in the /usr/java/ directory, Type:
> cd /usr/java/
> 
> QUESTION: Where is the standard place to install this software? It
> seems to me that I should not just invent /usr/java as it won't be in
> my path. Where did you put it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 

Rick,
   I see now that except for possibly backup issues it really doesn't
matter where I put it. The configuration step sets the path to the
Java executable and it works.

   Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. (SO MANY TIMES!!)

Cheers,
Mark