Linux help with instalation

Let's assume you downloaded a Linux installation package like this:

jdk-1_2_2_012-linux-i386.tar.gz

It is a gzipped (that is, a gzip-compressed) tar (tape archive) file.

You decide where you want to install the package, let us assume it is /usr/lib in order other users can access it too.

Then you gain root privileges (so that you can write the installation directory).

Then you go to the installation directory /usr/lib:

# cd /usr/lib

Then you say

# tartzvf/tmp/jdk-1_2_2_012-linux-i386.tar.gz

(assuming this very path name).

This will uncompress and "untar" the package.

Then you can put it into use either by expicitly calling java, javac etc. or by including /usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin into your PATH:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin

Hope this helped.

BIJa at 2007-7-8 10:04:47 >