Java problems

2k · 2007-01-17 19:57:58

Hi there,

First off apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but i was unsure where to post this...

I have recently decided to start programming again, after an absence of about 7 years. rather than going down the C route i'm going to try and learn java.

my problem is the following and despite extensive googleing i'm non the wiser to fixing it.

i have written a basic java program and when i try to compile it i'm getting the following error

javac: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

does anyone know why this is happening, and how to fix it. i dare say it's something that i have done.

once again sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

Cheers, Mike

fishonadish · 2007-01-17 20:13:04

libjli.so is part of the jre package. It's at /opt/java/jre/lib/i386/jli/libjli.so.
If java and jdk are both installed then javac is presumably looking for it in the wrong place?

Fishonadish

2k · 2007-01-17 20:47:01

curious...

everything was installed, i looked where you said and the file was there. then i decided to reboot the machine and it now works nice one. How easy was that? don't know why i had to reboot though

thanks for your help

Mike

tomk · 2007-01-17 21:28:40

/opt/java is not in your path by default. When you installed the java packages, the file /etc/profile.d/jre.sh was put in place, which appends /opt/java to the various paths already set in your system. However, this only if you do one of two things - either reboot, as you did, or

source /etc/profile

in a terminal.

Basu · 2007-01-18 10:12:09

You might want to check out the GNU Java compiler (though I haven't really used it myself).

2k · 2007-01-18 17:56:39

tomk wrote:

/opt/java is not in your path by default. When you installed the java packages, the file /etc/profile.d/jre.sh was put in place, which appends /opt/java to the various paths already set in your system. However, this only if you do one of two things - either reboot, as you did, or
source /etc/profile
in a terminal.

Cheers for that, i didn't know that and that is much more preferable to rebooting

2k · 2007-01-18 17:57:46

Basu wrote:

You might want to check out the GNU Java compiler (though I haven't really used it myself).

I have heard that it isn't as good as Sun's Java which has now been released under the gpl (i think)

Snowman · 2007-01-19 01:32:06

2k wrote:

tomk wrote:
/opt/java is not in your path by default. When you installed the java packages, the file /etc/profile.d/jre.sh was put in place, which appends /opt/java to the various paths already set in your system. However, this only if you do one of two things - either reboot, as you did, or
source /etc/profile
in a terminal.
Cheers for that, i didn't know that and that is much more preferable to rebooting

Rebooting is not necessary here. Loging out and reloging would've updated the paths.

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