[Laszlo-user] Stuck at what ought to be an easy install step (JAVA_HOME)

[Elliot Winard]

I used the (non-free-as-in-speech) Sun JDK on my Debian box just before 
it was released under a free-er license.

I think there are a few Ubuntu or Debian folks on this list.
-e


On Tue, Nov 6, 2007 at  2:30 PM, Amanda B Hickman wrote:

> I'm trying to just get 4.0.6 installed locally on an Ubuntu box and 
> the
> instructions about $JAVA_HOME are bewildering me.
>
> I used aptitude to install java7-jdk:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/devel/icedtea-java7-jdk
>
> not sure if that was the right first step, but I don't have anything
> that looks suitable for JAVA_HOME in /usr/lib and I'm afraid I'm being 
> a
> bit dense.
>
> Any insights on what JAVA_HOME is likely to be on an Ubuntu system?
> Debian? I'm sure this won't be my last question ...
>
> thanks,
> Amanda