[ale] Slow Learner/Debian + Java

[David Corbin]

I all I do is this:  Install the sun jdk download (as you have).  
Download and install a particularly stdlibc++.  I do a google on "debian 
java 1.4 stdlibc++".  There are couple of thread messages that talk 
about WHICH version.

Install eclipse. I NEVER set my CLASSPATH environment variable.

Grady Harris wrote:

>I finally swept out the dual-boot from my machine at home three weeks ago & 
>installed Debian (woody) as the sole OS. It's been great fun, I'm especially 
>fond of apt-get--at least, when it's apt to get what I actually want.
>
>It's been so much fun that I've re-installed three times since, after I've 
>managed to screw up something beyond my slim ability to figure it out. I really 
>need to take better notes as I go along--I have pretty good notes for the 
>initial install, but it's the late, desperate, trying things at quasi-random 
>that is less well documented.
>
>Here's what happens:
>I'm trying, one more time, to teach myself enough Java to use well the tools 
>that have proliferated around XML. Because this is basic learning, I want to 
>stick with Sun's J2SDK--that's the version in the books & tutorials. I also 
>want to use jEdit & Eclipse because--because I like them. I also would prefer 
>to stick with the default bash shell, to reduce the number of variables.
>
>I've sought out instructions on the installation from Sun up to Blackdown, 
>through Google & journals, & have discovered that there sure are a lot of 
>variations on the single theme.
>
>Again, here's what happens:
>1. I create a /usr/local/java directory & run the Sun binary there;
>2. open /etc/profile, add after the if->fi section:
>	export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/j2sdk
>	export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/jre:$PATH
>3.  source /etc/profile
>4. java -version
>Cool, it gives the right answer.
>
>But then--I try to install jEdit. It brings in the gcj compiler, the gij 
>libraries--nothing works!--apt-get remove jedit--it's gone, but they remain! 
>apt-get remove gij--it isn't there, says that liar, apt-get. I mess around 
>with .bashrc, with bash.profile, add a PATH anywhere that looks like it'll take 
>one, I forget to write down what I've done! Install jEdit from the .jar file--
>it can't find the classes! Add a classpath here & there! The usual shell 
>commands are unrecognized! Shut it down & go to sleep at dawn, cussing!
>
>Yeah, it doesn't work anymore. It's like that game on Officer Don's show, where 
>you tried to gather marbles in a can that dangled at the end of a string.
>
>Like I said, I've played variations on this about four times, & I'm learning a 
>great deal, but I would like to do something besides set up the environment, 
>like, say, use it. Do any of y'all have a fairly straight-forward installation 
>that runs J2SDK 1.4.*, jEdit, & even Eclipse on Debian? Where did you set your 
>PATH? Did you set a classpath?
>
>Grady Harris
>Headmaster, The Slow Learners' Academy
>Home of the Fightin' Zeno's Arrows
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