[mixx941]

Hello everybody.

I am running a box with Redhat 8 and I am trying to install Java Runtime Enviornment.

I was trying to install another program that required Java, so that's how I got to installing Java. When I try to install that other program that requires java, I get this in shell:

Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable. You must install a VM prior to
running this program.

Then, when I go to try to install Java again:

Preparing packages for installation...
package j2re-1.4.1_02-fcs is already installed

I should say that no java applets on the web work either, so...

If anyone has any suggestions on what to do next, please let me know.

Thanks

-Mark

[TristanSDM]

http://forums.techguy.org/t134418/s.html

This can probably solve your problem, but was aimed at installing the JDK.

--OR This is similar but also for the JDK not JRE--

It is simply a matter of your path. You should add it to your PATH in:

$HOME/.bash_profile

$HOME is your home directory in *nix - /home/<username> on RedHat. Also
the environmental variable $HOME is set when you log in and ~ is a
shortcut for it. The . in front of .bash_profile hides the file - this
is the file the login process runs when you log in (after the
system-wide /etc/profile - you could change this alternately, but you
must do this as root).

*nix uses : to seperate paths and you must export the variable for it to
be visible outside the shell script. So your change should be something
like:

It is simply a matter of your path. You should add it to your PATH in:

$HOME/.bash_profile

$HOME is your home directory in *nix - /home/<username> on RedHat. Also
the environmental variable $HOME is set when you log in and ~ is a
shortcut for it. The . in front of .bash_profile hides the file - this
is the file the login process runs when you log in (after the
system-wide /etc/profile - you could change this alternately, but you
must do this as root).

*nix uses : to seperate paths and you must export the variable for it to
be visible outside the shell script. So your change should be something
like:

JDK_HOME=/usr/java/jdk-1.4.1_02
JAVA_HOME=$JDK_HOME

#append jdk path to already existing path adjustment
#PATH=$PATH:~/bin <-- old line
PATH=$PATH:~/bin:$JDK_HOME/bin

#export JDK_HOME and JAVA_HOME - a number of tools require these values
#export PATH <-- old line
#export PATH JAVA_HOME JDK_HOME
JAVA_HOME=$JDK_HOME

#append jdk path to already existing path adjustment
#PATH=$PATH:~/bin <-- old line
PATH=$PATH:~/bin:$JDK_HOME/bin

#export JDK_HOME and JAVA_HOME - a number of tools require these values
#export PATH <-- old line
#export PATH JAVA_HOME JDK_HOME