Installed Jdk but errors.

[flebber]

I downloaded the latest jdk from oracle jdk1.6.0_26 I saved it to my user drive.

I did chmod +x

then ./jdk-6u26-linux-i586.bin # the install went okay i pressed enter to complete.

Following this guide I set path and home http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-java_home-path-variable/

so my bash profile is

Code:

# LOCALES ADDITIONS MADE BY THE VL GUI INSTALLER
export LANG=en_US
`setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us`
# END OF MODIFICATIONS BY THE VL GUI INSTALLER
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM func$
export JAVA_HOME=~/jdk1.6.0_26/bin/java
export PATH=$PATH:~/jdk1.6.0_26/bin

But testing the path and java show it is clearly not working.

Code:

vector:/~
flebber:$ echo $JAVA_HOME

vector:/~
flebber:$ echo $PATH
/home/flebber/.rvm/gems/rbx-2.0pre/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/gems/rbx-2.0pre@global/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/rubies/rbx-2.0pre/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin
vector:/~
flebber:$ which java
which: no java in (/home/flebber/.rvm/gems/rbx-2.0pre/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/gems/rbx-2.0pre@global/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/rubies/rbx-2.0pre/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin)
vector:/~

[pierce.jason]

Question: Why did you install to your home directory instead of into /opt? This is the normal location for java.

Solution: You most likely did not log out and back in. bash profile is not automatically re-read when you run a command, it is sourced at login time. You can also re-read it manually by typeing ". .bash_profile"(note the space between periods) or "source .bash_profile"

[flebber]

I just followed the oracle instructions they were simply download - chmod +x - ./ .

I did source .bash_profile and when that didn't work I logged in and out. Still no go.

[The Headacher]

I got me the slackware package of jdk, and it seems to work just fine out of the box.

To determine the slackware version your VL was built on:

Code:

cat /etc/slackware-version

Go to a slackware repository (for instance http://ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/slackware ), and find the directory matching your slackware version. Go there, then go to extra/jdk-6 subdir. download the .txz package, and install it with

Code:

installpkg [path to package]

Done!

[flebber]

Where exactly does installpkg, install the jdk. I followed your instructions and I am on 13.37.

After installing I logged out and back in but "which java" still shows no java.

Code:

vector:/~
flebber:$ which java
which: no java in (/home/flebber/.rvm/gems/rbx-2.0pre/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/gems/rbx-2.0pre@global/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/rubies/rbx-2.0pre/bin:/home/flebber/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin)
vector:/~

EDIT: I tried using grep to find jdk.

Code:

grep -r 'jdk' /* > ~/results.txt

This however crashed my system and I had to turn it off at the power.

[The Headacher]

On my system (also slack version 13.37) it was installed in /usr.

Code:

whereis java
java: /usr/lib/java

[pierce.jason]

Code:

vl:$ grep "java$" /var/log/packages/* 
/var/log/packages/jre-6u6-i586-3:usr/lib/java/bin/java

What version of vectorlinux are you running?

Is the jdk in the repos not new enough for your needs?

[flebber]

I am on vector 7 slack 13.37. The repo's didn't have any jdk in it. If there has been an update to the vector repo's recently I will have to re-check.

[flebber]

Yeah double checked just now. There are more packages in the repository  but no jdk at the moment, still just jre.

[stretchedthin]

enable extra and testing in gslapt. Edit>>Preferences>>Sources>>Check the boxes you want enabled.
You should find JDK then.
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-7.0/testing/l/jdk-6u24-i586-1vl70.txz
Just showing the url to give you confidence it is there, but install through GSlapt, so if there is dependencies required they will be taken care of.

[flebber]

Will give it a try. I need to fully reinstall vector7 though. I went through the process of installing mono/monodevelop and dependecies last night and it totally killed my vector install the desktop would not function at all. libgdata and consolekit were the dependencies at fault I think. Learnt my lesson wont be doing that again 

[hata_ph]

Will give it a try. I need to fully reinstall vector7 though. I went through the process of installing mono/monodevelop and dependecies last night and it totally killed my vector install the desktop would not function at all. libgdata and consolekit were the dependencies at fault I think. Learnt my lesson wont be doing that again 

Problem with mono/monodevelop?

[flebber]

Well think it was the dependencies required to install mono that caused the issues. It was either libgdata or consolekit which caused it. I actually lean think it was consolekit that wrecked the desktop settings.

[hata_ph]

libgdata and consolekit is not a dependency for monodevelop...

[flebber]

They are not for monodevelop but they are for Mono. I built it (mono) using vpackager and builds failed unless gnome-sharp was installed. Gnome sharp required libgdata and consolekit as dependecies from gslapt.