Saturday, 27 February 2016

Java...

In trying to get Firefox to work with the ISY home automation server, I discovered that I needed, not java-script, but rather "Java"

I installed something via muon, but Firefox still did not work.



I found this link: http://tutorialforlinux.com/ and then downloaded the latest version from Oracle,  http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp


jre-7u25-linux-x64.rpm  jre-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz

chad@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ mv jre-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/java/
mv: cannot move `jre-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz' to `/usr/java/jre-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz': Permission denied

my pw would not work for sudo ??

So I changed it via the settings pannel. Then:




chad@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo mv jre-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/java/
chad@ubuntu:~/Downloads$



At that point I discovered new menus under "Settings" for OpenJDK Java





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