I'm a newbie in cobalt raq4 and linux and I have to install
the java runtime 1.3 to our server.
but ... where can I find the .pkg, can I directly download
to server, what is to do after that
(is there a need to integrate to start-procedures?).
:homer:

I don't knoiw much about this, but is this the JRE or JDK java virtual machine? If so I recently had someone install it and no, it wasn't a package.

I am not an expert in Linux or Java but it was relatively painless to install it on a RaQ4 via the command line.

I installed the self-extracting binary version (j2sdk-1_3_1-linux-i386.bin)
JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition Version 1.3.1 for Linux (Intel x86)
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html

using the instructions at:
Installation Notes JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition Version 1.3.1 Linux
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/install-linux-sdk.html

The installation went smoothly.

There is also a RPM version.

We just use Java to run DigiChat.

I didn't do anything other than what is contained in the installation instructions and Java runs after a system reboot or at least DigiChat runs after issuing the startup commands for it. Those commands may contain something that starts Java. I don't think so though.

Don

You can install it by any of the methods mentioned. It can be a rpm or a self-extracting bin file or even just untarring it to the directory where you want it installed.

There's no need to start "java" on reboot. Things that run using java will need to be started at reboot but there's nothing to start as far as java is concerned. It's like perl. You install perl itself and there's nothing to start on reboot. If you have a process that uses perl to run you'll need to restart that.

Now if you're talking about running servlets (probably the most common reason to have java support on the machine) you'll also need to install a servlets package (tomcat or jserv for example) and start that on reboot. If you're planning on running JSP you will need to install the JDK and not just the runtime stuff.