Hi! Simon, I was not able to run "javac" command on my potato-i386 box and I gave following commands... May be this will help you...
seinfeld:/etc/alternatives# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/local/java/bin/javac 120 seinfeld:/etc/alternatives# type javac javac is /usr/bin/javac seinfeld:/etc/alternatives# ls -l /usr/bin/javac lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 30 16:23 /usr/bin/javac -> /etc/alternatives/javac seinfeld:/etc/alternatives# ls -l javac lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 May 30 16:23 javac ->/usr/local/java/bin/javac Harvey "Dr. Simon Read" wrote: > Folks, > > I'm having very serious problems with Sun's JDK 1.2.2 (and Blackdown's > too) with potato on both my i386 and SPARC boxes. > > I've followed the installation instructions supplied with each, but I > still get NoClassDefFoundError exceptions even for simple HelloWorld > classes. > > I believe the problem is with /etc/alternatives system. I have the > dummy java compiler and virtual machine installed. > > Can someone help? I want either to set up a configuration file for > JDK1.2.2 or to rip out (purge, expunge, completely remove) the > alternatives for java. I'd be happy to RTFM is someone can point me > to one. > > I think the Java package maintainers should give serious thought to > their policy, especially with respect to Java 2. Java and CORBA are > likely to be the basis of a new class of distributed systems that will > change the way enterprises build systems. If Debian does not keep > pace with Sun's releases, however repugnant Sun's SCSL may be, it will > exclude an important class of user groups. Having been an ardent > Debian supporter from it's inception, I am on the edge of becoming > sufficiently frustrated with Debian to consider a much less > 'politically correct' distribution because of issues such as this. > > Simon Read > > Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Info. Sys. > Clark 120 > American University > 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW > Washington, DC 20016 > Tel: 1 202 885 3128 > Fax: 1 202 885 1479 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: www.csis.american.edu/~simon > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
