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jdgallag

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Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 2

two newbie questions

Hi archlinux community,

I just installed Archlinux, first time, and I like it.  However, I have two questions:

1) when I installed jdk (>pacman -Sy jdk) I get a message saying that I must read and agree to the license file before I can use it.  I read the license file; it says that if I install jdk, I agree to it.  So I scrolled through it, and hit save.  I still can't use java or javac. ???

2) I installed haskell-cabal, and tried to build a package.  I darcs get the file and when I type (>runhaskell Setup configure) and I get the error message     
"Bad interface file: /usr/lib/Cabal-1.4.0.1/ghc-6.8.2/Distribution/Simple.hi
        magic number mismatch: old/corrupt interface file?"  I have never seen this one before, and I am wondering if I installed things right.  I installed all Haksell packages by adding the haskell repository pacman.conf.

If any one can send me some help, I would really appreciate it.  Thank you in advance.

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Jon

skottish

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Re: two newbie questions

Hi archlinux community,

I just installed Archlinux, first time, and I like it.  However, I have two questions:

1) when I installed jdk (>pacman -Sy jdk) I get a message saying that I must read and agree to the license file before I can use it.  I read the license file; it says that if I install jdk, I agree to it.  So I scrolled through it, and hit save.  I still can't use java or javac. ???Jon

Welcome to the forums jdgallag. For question #1, simply logging out and back in again should fix that. Also, running 'source /etc/profile' may do the trick.

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: two newbie questions

Welcome to the forums!

Sorry, I can't help you with either of those, but you might get more responses if you change the subject line to "problems with jdk and haskell-cabal" or something else that's descriptive of your problem.

Last edited by Xyne (2008-11-23 19:52:52)

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cliffbreaker

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From: Tiraspol, Transnistria

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 52

Re: two newbie questions

Why do you install jdk? Install jre instead and everything will work correctly

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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

Re: two newbie questions

Alternately, you can install openjdk6 with "pacman -Sy openjdk6" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK I use it and have had no problems with it.