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[Bruce B]

This HOWTO was written by Sit Heel Speak. Originally posted in the beginners forum, then lost in the shuffle. Later added to the HOWTO section by Bruce B

NOTE: Before starting this how to, please read the follow up
posts by other users, especially the one by Bluedogruns

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I've just installed the current Java Runtime Environment (1.6.0.02) into Puppy 2.17.1 (with WhoDo's EZPup 2.1.7R2) directly from Sun, no dotpup involved. Here's the procedure. I composed this so a French-speaker can translate it using Babelfish:

1. Open Seamonkey. Surf you to
http://www.sun.com/

2. In the lower right, press "Java for games, apps, and a whole lot more."

3. Press you the green "Free Java Download" button.

4. Press you the green down-arrow "Linux (self-extracting file)" button.

5. A dialog box opens, "Opening jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin".

6. Be sure that "Save it to disk" is highlighted.

7. Click you the "OK" button.

8. Click you the "Browse for other folders" line.

9. In the left window, double-click "File System".

10. Grab the "Enter name of file to save to..." window's title bar and move the window to the center of your screen.

11. In the right window, scroll down to "usr" and doubleclick.

12. Scroll down and doubleclick "local".

13. Scroll down and doubleclick "bin".

14. Click you the "Save" button.

15. Wait you for the 18+MB download to conclude. You will see the download's progress in the "Download Manager" window, which you can see by pressing the tiny green down-arrow on the taskbar.

16. Open you Puppy's lower-left Menu (Start) button, Filesystem - Rox-Filer file manager.

17. Press you the up arrow at top left of the Rox window. This places you in / .

18. Click you the "usr" icon.

19. Click you the "local" icon.

20. Click you the "bin" icon.

21. Right-click the icon for jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin (which you have just downloaded).

22. Highlight "File 'jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin'" and roll you the mouse to the right and roll to "Properties" .

23. Left-click "Properties" .

24. Click you the checkbox "Exec" (=make executeable) in the "Owner" row.

25. Click the Close button.

26. Right-click in the whitespace of the /usr/local/bin Rox window.

27. Roll down to "Window" and slide the mouse right and to "Terminal here" .

28. Left-click "Terminal here" .

29. At the # prompt, issue the command

./jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin

30. You see the license. Repeatedly, but slowly, press the "Page Down" key until you see the word "More" no longer.

31. Now you see "Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]"

32. Press y {enter} .

33. Now Java unpacks. In a minute you see "Done."

34. Menu - Filesystem - Rox-Filer

35. Up-arrow usr lib mozilla plugins

36. Right-click in whitespace in this Rox window, Window-->Terminal here .

37. Create you a symbolic link: issue you this command:

[descoffey]

Hi and thanks for a really idiot-proof instruction for Java installation.
I was doing well until the issuing of the symbolic link.
All I get is "command not found"

Any further help for this newbie would be great (I'm trying to get Logmein to work).

Des

[Bruce B]

ln is a valid command - perhaps you made a typo.

If you don't think so, hope you have suggestions about what you think happened.

[descoffey]

Hi Bruce and thanks for taking the time and trouble to respond.
No typos here.
I am attaching an image of what happens when I try to run this command.
Maybe this will throw some light?

Thanks again.

Des

[MU]

no in but ln (small L and small N).
Stands for LiNk.

Mark

[Bluedogruns]

Hi;

I am new to Puppy and Linux and have had to ask 3 or 4 questions myself to get Puppy just the way I want it. Actually getting Java installed was one of my questions too.

Even as a newbie I have figured what is wrong here and following these instructions to the letter will not make it work. Took me a couple of hours to figure out everything. Now I can contribute something for the help I got from others.

Let me start by saying if it was not for this post in the first place I would still be working getting Java going, but since I am persistent I have the solution.

I followed these instructions and had the same issue. I dug into it deep checking on the Sun site and double checking everything close and here is how to make it work. I have three things for you to follow.

First things first go to the folder where you made your symbolic link and delete the one you created it will not work should be in
usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (I don't know how to edit the link so just recreate it).

Now follow the same instructions that you followed before to recreate the link except this time do the following:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

You will notice all you are doing is not putting this part of the command ./libjavaplugin_oji.so back in the link because having that gives the link the incorrect path. See original command below.

[descoffey]

Great!

Many thanks Bluedogrun, MU and Bruce B.
You've all been really helpful.
I can now use just Puppy on my laptop to access my work PC (Sadly this has to run M$)

Des

[pk007]

Hello,

(First: sorry for my bad English... Wink )

Thank's for this very good and easy howto!
But I still have a problem:
I've installed Java and it works fine.
But when I restart PuppyLinux (It is installed on an usb-flash-device),
the symbolic link is ereased and Java doesn't work.
What can I do...?

[moncha]

Thanks. It wasn't that hard at all. Even this newb could do it.

[?xunil]

i get this error in the terminal...

[bobwrit]

This is the only way I install java.BTW my biology teacher require this kind of procedure(sp) for our labs(we have to write our own).

[peppyy]

Great Tutorial,

I can't seem to locate the mozilla plugins directory in tmxxine however to get java working in Seamonkey 2.1.1 I tried all the obvious locations but it seems there has been a default change for some of these files in Puppy 3.x. I also couldn't locate flash9 there although it works in Seamonkey.

Edit: Sorry I should not work on computers when I have the flue, It was right where it belonged. I created a link in the same way and it works just fine.

I used the middle button and dragged the link (relative) to the firefox plugin folder after I installed Firefox and it worked perfectly.

[kkpity]

I've followed all instructions step by step with no errors, but the test from Sun fails and it says that I have no java on my system.

I'm using puppy 3.01 from CD.

I've tested with seamonkey 1.1.2 (the default that comes in 3.01), 1.1.5 and 1.1.6.

I've also tested with java 1.6 update 2 and update 3.

I've inserted the link at:
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.x/plugin (x is 2, 3 or 5),
/usr/include/seamonkey-1.1.x/plugin (x is 2, 3 or 5) and
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

I've also delete Cache and Javascript is enabled.

I've no Firefox on my system.

Any clue?

Thanks in advance

kkpity

[kkpity]

I solved this issue with following:

from:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1002410915&t=11096

"..but I discovered why. When I tried to follow sbaguz's advice, above, I clicked (in SeaMonkey) Edit-Preferences and then the + beside Advanced, and then Scripts and Plugins. Enable Javascript for Navigator was enabled. At first though, I did not realize that I also need to click "Edit-Preferences" and then click "Advanced" itself, not the expansion + beside it, to bring up the Enable Java checkbox. And check it."

and also doing the "ln -s" to the following locations:
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.6/plugins
/usr/include/seamonkey-1.1.6/plugin/

I'm using seamonkey-1.1.6 and jre 1.6 update 3.

Hope this help others with same issue.

Regards

kkpity

[joris]

to set it up so you can run programs like Azureus
you have to add the path to the java binary in /etc/profile, and also add the java home variable, something like:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/bin/jre1.6.0_02
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

and don't forget to

open up the actual azureus executable.... open it up as text....
there are a couple of options right at the top.....
in the option to set the java dir, set it to wherever yer java is installed ..... keep in mind that it wants the fulll path to the java bin....
same with the azureus dir.....

I cut & pasted this from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=2118905842&t=25494
After several hours trying i finally found this post l and it was a lifesaver. (I was about to give up on puppy.)

Thanks for the instructions about how to install java. It made installing java really easy.