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POTTER LES wrote:
> 
> Karl asked for feedback, here goes...
> 
> Just started lurking on this e-mail mailing list a week ago.  I'm pretty new
> to Java, (5 or 6 programming hours on Sun's Java).  Here are some of the
> problems I've encountered in getting Java up on Linux....
> 
> 1) Downloaded Java for Linux, had to gunzip two different files (common and
> static since I have no Motif), no instructions on what order to do gunzip
> them, they appear to have overlapping filenames...
> 2) Ran appletviewer on the demo/TicTacToe/example.html, got a complaint
> about not being able to find __libc_malloc()...
> 3) Figured maybe I need to gunzip and install the libc.blah-de-blah-de-blah
> on my WEBnut CD (no instructions found saying I need to do that)...
> 4) Ran appletviewer again, new problems (segmentation violation, I think,
> I'm writing from memory)...
> 5) Same new problems with javac...
> 6) Ran out of time this weekend to follow through...
> 

Les,

I get the feeling you're not used to Linux. It's definitely a do-it-yourself 
operating system. Those of us who've been working with it since before the 1.0
version of the kernel are used to looking for a file labeled HOWTO, which may
or may not have enough information to actually get a given package to work. 
Most of the HOWTO's are very informative and helpful, including the latest one
from the linux-java porting project. That file has a listing of what you need
on your system(including the latest libc, and ELF support), which you may not 
have on the CD you originally installed from. (It's not on the Infomagic CD's 
I got my system from.) The HOWTO also addresses what order to install things in,
and what changes need to be made to some of the scripts to get the whole thing 
going. A _very_ helpful tool is the archive of this mailing list, which is 
maintained at LinuxNet.

The HOWTO is at 

http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

and the mailing list archive is at 

http://homer.ncm.com/

Good luck with it all, and have fun working in an operating system with no
training wheels. (And sometimes I wonder about the regular wheels, too.)

Hope this helps,

-- 
Tim Farnum      	"I can walk to the curb from here."
tfarnum@rpa.net