On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Milos Blazevic <milos.blazevic at sbb.rs> wrote: > Bob Stine wrote: >> Milos Blazivec wrote: >> >> ? ? /... I am, in fact, interested in making adjustments to the Wiki / >> ? ? /page - but sadly not the ones you proposed Bob, since the just >> ? ? won't do / >> ? ? /the trick./ >> >> Hmm. ?I ran the executed the bin file, edited /etc/profile so that >> PATH included the "bin" directory of the sun jdk directory, added >> environment variable JDK_HOME, ?deleted the /usr/bin/java symlink from >> java -> /etc/alternative/java, and everything works, or at least well >> enough for me to run the Eclipse C++ IDE, which was my goal. >> >> Maybe adding the jdk was unnecessary for Eclipse to work? >> >> Could you unpack "just won't do", or point to a discussion of the issue? >> >> Thanks. >> --- >> Bob Stine >> bob at waltonstine.net <mailto:bob at waltonstine.net> ?(703) 217-4784 >> /Rule for living: What Would Clint Eastwood Do?/ >> > What I meant is that the instructions you suggested in your first e-mail > are taken from: > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/install-linux-64-rpm-138254.html > and are all but comprehensive, let alone appropriate for beginners. > These installation instructions have been accompanying Sun Java as long > as I can remember, and "strangely", no one cared to mention 'em in the > Wiki page... don't you think that's kinda odd? I don't - 'cause they > don't work! > > This second part (editing /etc/profiles, deleting symlinks and editing > PATH...) is NOT what you mentioned in your first e-mail. However, in my > honest opinion, this is still not the correct way to do this. > > What you did, is that you probably got it to work for Your particular > purpose by resorting to an unconventional method (i.e. circumvent the > mechanism intended for this purpose, rather than a by-the-book > approach). By solving the problem this way, sooner or later you'll end > up breaking something. Maintenance may prove difficult later Agreed. Sometimes the road best taken is the one not yet travelled. jerry
