Install Problems

[WJProctor]

Evening everyone, before i start Merry Christmas to you all. Ive just installed Java SDK 1.4.2 and the install went fine as i was expecting, The system tells me that the correct version of java is installed if i go to cmd and type in java. How ever in /bin i cant seem to find javac.exe which is supposed to be there for me to compile with. I have just started to look at Java and am follwing a book which has told me to find this file. Maybe someone can help me out and tell my why its not there and what i can do. Hope u can, thank you very much.

James

 

[amittuli]

Hello James
Usually, you would find javac (note that javac would be without an exe extension) under /usr/bin. As you have not mentioned about the OS on which you have installed JDK, I would suggest you to follow this. Give a command "find / -name javac". It would give you list of javac present on your system with absolute path. (say /usr/java141/bin/javac)

Now, if your requirement is to have javac under /bin, then you can probably have a soft link created as follows :
ln -sf /usr/java141/bin/javac /bin/javac

This should solve your problem.

Otherwise, you may choose to put /usr/java141/bin in your path (as javac was found under it).

Let us know if you need further help.

Thanks
Amit