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Subject: Re: java not running .jar files without absolute path.  (take II)
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 epilogue@allstream.net wrote:

> > which java
> /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java
>
> > java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar
> Error: could not find libjava.so
> Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment.
>
> however, the program will run with an absolute path:
> > /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar
>
>
> i don't see any typos in my $PATH (witness 'which' result above).
>
> the same occurs with linux-sun-jdk (when i put it earlier in the $PATH)
>
> am i missing something?  is this standard behaviour for java?

Works for me; is JAVA_HOME set to something broken in your environment?

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