Java Solution

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 03 January 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
>     Dennis your another person who says I know nothing about java. Your
> full of self love Dennis. I know more from one day of study than you
> will ever know.

Karl, you do realize that you just called a member of the Fedora Engineering 
Steering Committee stupid, right?  See 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee

He's the build and release engineer for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) 
project.

He's a member of the Fedora Project Board for crying out loud! ( 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board  )

He actually maintains some of the packages that you (and I) use.

Even with your PhD in EE, when it comes to Fedora I know beyond a shadow of a 
doubt that Dennis, one of the many capable Fedora leaders, knows a great deal 
more about this subject than you.

Up to this point, I've been leaning towards giving you the benefit of the 
doubt, but this takes the cake.  Not again.

By the way, the jedit installation FAQ explicitly says: "To run the installer, 
do whatever you normally do to run a Java jar archive. If this is your first 
time, follow these steps:

   1.      Open a terminal or command interpreter window.
   2.      Change the current directory to the directory in which you have 
stored the jEdit installer file.
   3.      Run this command: [full path to java application launcher] -jar 
jeditXXXinstall.jar"
(FAQ found at http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/installation.html )

NOTE CAREFULLY STEP 3: you have to use the FULL PATH TO THE  BINARY.  So, 
instead of the command line you might think:
/usr/bin/java -jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar (which will not work)

with IcedTea, for instance, you run
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java -jar jedit4.3pre12install.jar  

And, guess what: it installs and runs just fine.  I just installed it here, 
perfectly.  It didn't work by not giving the full path to the java binary 
(why, I don't know, but it is something the jedit developers are aware of, 
since they specifically say to give the full path to the java binary).  But I 
do know that I have a copy of jedit installed right now without a Sun java 
being installed.  Would you like to see the screenshots?

Incidentally, thanks for the pointer to jedit; looks like something I might 
use.
-- 
Lamar Owen, KF4MYT
Chief Information Officer
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu