You appear to be wanting to use Sun's java. However, installing the jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.rpm RPM won't by default put java(c) in the path. You can see this with java -verison. Please download from jpackage.org java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.08-1jpp.noarch.rpm This is a wrapper that will place java and javac in the path and correctly modify all the jpackage file locations. You can download it directly from http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.6/generic/non-free/RPMS/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.08-1jpp.noarch.rpm HTH, Tarun On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 17:24 -0400, John Hinton wrote: > I've installed jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.rpm and Tomcat. > > Working through some initial test install programs, I am finding that I > can't seem to compile .java files into classes. > > For instance... > > javac -classpath /usr/local/tomcat/common/lib/servlet.jar HelloWorld.java > > as instructed fails with a > > gij: unrecognized option -- `-classpath' > Try `gij --help' for more information. > > So then I notice there is no servlet.jar file, but instead a > servlet-api.jar.. I change the command and it fails with the same > problem. Trying the command without the -class and without the path > fails with path errors. So it's sort of like this -classpath switch is > either pathed wrong somewhere or is deprecated? > > This is on a CentOS 3 server. Anybody run into this? Do you have a solution? > > Thanks, > John Hinton > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos