Manually install JAVA 101.

[frenchiveruti]

Hi, so, I found a plethora of outdated tutorials on how to install java on a puppy linux, I'm using frugal and Tahrpup 6.0.5 and I'm not sure if it changes from puppy to puppy but here are the steps.

1. Download from http://www.java.com the lastest JAVA (~70MB) version tar.gz (the zip things for linux NOT the RPM) for your Architecture (64 for 64bits and 32 for 32 bits, you can check this by using " uname -p " on a terminal, if it displays x86_64 then x64 is for you).
2. Open the terminal (yeah, the one and only)
3. Do this set of commands when your file is DOWNLOADED (sentences next to "#" explain what each command does):

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mkdir /usr/java/ #creates java directory
cd /usr/java/ #sets working directory to the one just created
cp ~/Downloads/jre*.tar.gz /usr/java/ #copies the downloaded file to the folder previously mentioned.
tar zxvf jre*.tar.gz #unpacks the file into a directory
ln -s -v /usr/java/jre*/bin/java /usr/bin/java #makes a link to be able to issue the "java" command on the terminal, you should change the "jre*" bit to the name of the folder that the tar command created
cd /etc/profile.d/ #places terminal on the profile.d directory.
mp java #creates and edits a java file

(Here's the same thing within a single command for the lazy or the very confident people):

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mkdir /usr/java/; cd /usr/java/; cp ~/Downloads/jre*.tar.gz /usr/java/; tar zxvf jre*.tar.gz; ln -s -v /usr/java/jre*/bin/java /usr/bin/java; cd /etc/profile.d/; mp java

4. Now you should have a text editor open, you should paste the following commands:

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JAVA_HOME=$(ls -d /usr/java/jre* | tail -n 1); export JAVA_HOME #Creates the JAVA_HOME env variable for proper jar use
echo $PATH|grep -q "$JAVA_HOME" || export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin; #adds the JAVA_HOME to the PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH #Adds the libs of java to the libs library

5.Before we finish, make sure to delete the tar.gz file from the "/usr/java/" folder, you can use

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rm "/usr/java/jre-*.tar.gz"

so the "JAVA_HOME" doesn't make a mistake with the "/usr/java/jre*" variable.

And that's it! If you want to know where did I get this information, check this links:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 031#710031
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 1&start=17

[Flash]

Thanks, that's a very nice How-to. You left out one thing: about how big is the JAVA download?

[B.K. Johnson]

Here you are Flash

[Pelo]

We have pets available for java versions, just to click on.. What is the advantage of writing again in terminal ? What is a dummy ? (sorry i am french, and i suppose you are french too. Musher0 is (quite) an expert of Java, and he speaks french fluently. If you need anything about JRE, il sera heureux to help you

[frenchiveruti]

We have pets available for java versions, just to click on.. What is the advantage of writing again in terminal ? What is a dummy ? (sorry i am french, and i suppose you are french too. Musher0 is (quite) an expert of Java, and he speaks french fluently. If you need anything about JRE, il sera heureux to help you

Hello my friend! Yes indeed, there might be pet files around to be able to install java, but for those like me who don't reaaaally trust PET files as they usually made my puppy break more than help it (aside from the ones that are a must install, those worked fine), having the option to use the terminal is a nice solution.
I'm not french, I'm from argentina and je ne seis pas parler français! It's just a username that is a combination of two guys that were alive during the Independence Day here.