Hallo wcrowshaw, Maybe...
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At this point, I've lost the ability to run java by >simply calling "java" from the CLI. You mean it worked before you messed with dselect? >Currently it >complains the following: >JVM not found: libjvm.so - libjvm.so This looks like it can't find this in the library.path. Try to set LD_PRELOAD to the right dir or start java with -Dlibrary.path=... (or so, I'm not sure about the right syntax of that). If that helps, install a short script, which does this and install that as /usr/bin/java. anyway, I can't really see, *why* this can happen. :( >I've given up trying to fight dselect and finally >installed the java-virtual machine dummy package. There is no other way... :/ >Even when I set this as the default /usr/bin/java >command I get the above error. At this point the >only way I can run java is by calling it using the >full path which is rather annoying. Strange. >If anyone could help me set up java properly on >debian woody when its been installed from a .tar >file I would greatly appreciate it. Usually: Install the tar, setup the alternatives and teh dummy package and be done. >At best I >would just like to get rid of the "JVM not found" >message and run java simply by type the "java" at >the command line. As a last resort: setup a script as /usr/bin/java #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/.../java "$@" Jan -- Jan Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]