java application

Forum: Apps
Topic: java application
started by: kbf

Posted by kbf on Dec. 14 2004,16:24

Hi

I have a application (in a -jar archive) opened with java and it works. but where is it installed, or how do I use?

Thanks

Posted by codestorm on Dec. 15 2004,10:01

Hmm, are you asking if java comes installed with DSL and where it is?

If so, AFAIK Java doesn't come preinstalled with DSL (even JRE is waaay too big), however you can either

1) download the latest J2SE SDK from java.sun.com if you have the bandwidth and a HDD DSL install, or

2) download the JRE gz somewhere in the myDSL repository - system section I think.

I haven't tried option 2 so I can't vouch for where it'd install, and I manually installed my J2SE so I don't know where it prefers to install either.

If you think you've installed Java, from a shell prompt you could do:

which java

or

whereis java

or

find /opt /usr -name java

to find out where it's hiding.

Posted by DonttPanic on Dec. 15 2004,21:18

The java runtime environment for firefox is an available .uci for DSL.

< Here's the link for the JRE .uci >
Also, as codestorm said, you could get the .tar.gz from the myDSL repository. < Here's the link for that. >