Can't get DVArchive to start.....................Linux Adv..

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Here's what happens:

># java -jar DVArchive.jar
>libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
>
>This script is a placeholder for the /usr/bin/java and /usr/bin/javac
>master links required by jpackage.org conventions. libgcj's
>rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools are now slave symlinks to these
>masters, and are managed by the alternatives(8) system.
>
>This change was necessary because the rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools
>installed by previous versions of libgcj conflicted with symlinks
>installed by jpackage.org JVM packages.

Then, nothing happens. Anybody know what's up? Thanx.

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If you d/l Java directly from the home page at www.java.com it will work
perfectly with DVA without any other action. If you d/l from the DVA
page you'll have the problems as you describe. I found this out the
hard way.

From:Boll Weevil
dryer@maytag.com

> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:01:11 -0600, Boll Weevil <dryer@maytag.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here's what happens:
>>
>>> # java -jar DVArchive.jar
>>> libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
>>>
>>> This script is a placeholder for the /usr/bin/java and
>>> /usr/bin/javac master links required by jpackage.org conventions.
>>> libgcj's rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools are now slave symlinks to
>>> these masters, and are managed by the alternatives(8) system.
>>>
>>> This change was necessary because the rmiregistry, rmic and jar
>>> tools installed by previous versions of libgcj conflicted with
>>> symlinks installed by jpackage.org JVM packages.
>>
>> Then, nothing happens. Anybody know what's up? Thanx.
>
>
> I resolved the problem. I don't know if there is something messed up
> with Fedora or something I did. The Java path was incorrectly set to
> /usr/bin/java. Anyway, I found this URL which helped:
>
> http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~guru/java-notes.html
>
> On the site where it tells you to run this commands, make sure you
> replace the "sdk" to "re" since sdk is the development kit. So you
> should run this from the /root directory:
>
> for bash-
> #echo 'export PATH="/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/bin/:${PATH}"' >> ~/.bashrc
>
>
> for tcsh-
> #echo 'setenv PATH "/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/bin/:\${PATH}"' >> ~/.cshrc