Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:38:43 +1100 From: "Joe Shevland" <joe.shevland@horizonti.com> To: "Philip Sydney Lavers" <psl@ign.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: i downloaded java now what? Message-ID: <199802200140.MAA22476@oznet02.ozemail.com.au>
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Apologies for any paragraph mangling that occurs as a result of using an as-expected shocking M$ mail client. > I have down loaded java and installed it in /usr/local/jdk1.1.5 as > recommended > I did this because my Netscape 3.01 will not view a web site, > www.geobits.com that my kids gave me as a birthday present, although any > of my win95 browsers see it ok > I thought the problem might have been a lack of java on my system Browser's use their own virtual machine, so you don't need to have a JDK or JRE installed. > Now I have more problems that I am not competent to solve: > 1 > I had to su to root to get the tar to work. now Icant get into the > /usr/local/jdk1.1.5 as an ordinaryt user Use 'chmod' and 'chown' to alter permissions on the files that have been installed. These routines use octal values to specify read/write/execute permissions. Although I would have thought the installation process would fix permissions for you. e.g. chmod 777 'filename' will give owner, group and world read, write and execute privs. > 2 > even when i su back to root and get ino /usr/local/jdk1.1.5/demo/Clock > say what do I do to run the demonstration? 'appletviewer <html.file>' from the command line will work, as will navigating to this directory using a browser (I've set up apache on localhost to do this). Applications (as opposed to applets) use the 'java' command line script/executable. > i am trying to eschew Microsoft and encourage others to do the same via > FreeBSD or Linux A noble pursuit. > I realise > everything would be easier if i were an unix guru, but i am not and have > better things to do than to try to become one. I would be grateful for > some help. I agree. FreeBSD would be an even more potent platform if it become more accessible to the average user. Hopefully Java will have a large part ot play in providing nice frontends and admin tools :) Hope this helped. ********************************************************************** Joe Shevland - Horizon Technologies International Email: joe.shevland@horizonti.com We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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