[CentOS] Java installation problem.

[Rich Huff]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 18:31 +0000, duffmckagan wrote:
> I downloaded the   jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin    files and then 
> run it as   ./jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin.
> 
> It resulted in an rpm file. and then i used
> rpm -iv jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm 
> 
> Everything went fine and I didn't get any error.
> But when I do 
> java -version    ......i don't get any output.
> 
> I would like to know whether java is installed on my system or not.
> 
> PS: I have carried out all the proceses as root.

You still need to add the JAVA_HOME environment variable and add the
$JAVA_HOME/bin directory to your path.  I usually do this in
my .bash_profile

Look in /usr/java for the directory containing all the java install.
I usually install the jdk, not the jre, so the location may be
different.

Rich
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