On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:12 -0400, Artie Caton wrote: > Hi People, I am new to this entire setup and I am running Fedora17 on my > Linux machine. I am trying to do a college course at home with > Stanford.edu on eclipse & Karel package for intro to programming. As I > start the install of the 1st package which is > Java 1.6 JRE installer for the PC > <http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/software/jre-6u2-windows-i586-p.exe> > > It gets stuck on step 3. where it shows the directory lists there is one > that is blank and it says: > > > > Sorry, specify wine library directory. > What, exactly, does the course material require in the way of programs apart from Eclipse and the Java 6SE development kit? If the answer is 'nothing', you can get Eclipse by using the Fedora 17 package manager to install the Eclipse packages. Open Java should have been installed as part of the initial Fedora install and, if not, its likely that it will be pulled in as an Eclipse dependency. If you need Sun/Oracle Java rather than OpenJava you can download the JDK (Java Development Kit) from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html In addition, be certain to download and install the Java documentation set. Its a large ZIP archive. You can unpack it anywhere and, because its a set of web pages, add a bookmark for its top-level index.html page to your web browser. If, on the other hand, your course requires you to use some Windows programs, start by installing the Fedora 17 WINE packages and then use WINE to install the Windows versions of the Java and Eclipse packages. If this isn't the case, you'll be better off using native Linux Eclipse and Java because (a) they will almost certainly work better and (b) you'll want to be writing Java to run on your Linux box and might as well find out about that from the start. > > I cannot go any further with the Java setup for this college program > design until I get this problem fixed... Is there anyone out there who > can help me with this? Sorry, I am newbie at this (56 yr old fireman > with broken spine) and lots of time... I Love Linux and they supply > program packages for Windows platforms or Mac OS X 10 or something like > that... So, I chose to use the Windoze do to NO experience with Mac at all! > It might be a smart move to talk to Stanford before going any further. Explain that you want to use your Fedora 17 Linux distro to learn Java and ask them which set of packages they recommend you use. The Fedora Eclipse packages can be installed either by using the graphical 'Add/Remove packages' system maintenance tool or by starting a console session, becoming root and running "yum install eclipse*". Similarly "yum install java*" installs Java, if it isn't already there, and "yum install wine*" installs WINE if you need it. Sun/Oracle distribute their Java JDK (you need the JDK to write Java programs: the JRE only runs existing programs) as an RPM file. Once downloaded, the command "sudo rpm -U name-of-download.rpm" installs it under /usr/java. You'll need to add a couple of shell variables to your user shell profile (edit ~/.bash_profile) before this version of Java will work: - Add /usr/java/jdk1.7.x/bin to $PATH (where jdk1.7.x matches the version you downloaded. - Set $JAVA_HOME to /usr/java/jdk1.7.x Of course OpenJava will be set up correctly when the OpenJava packages are installed, which may have been done automatically when you installed Fedora 17 and will almost certainly be done as part of the Eclipse installation. Martin
