On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 14:52 +0100, Luis Moreira wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
> Thanks for the reply, As I am new to Linux I would like to organise
> things in a neat way that's why I asked the question. I will install it
> on the /usr/bin directory. The Sun site does give me instructions on how
> to install it but not the preferred location. 

Well, the problem is there is no universal "preferred" location, each
distro has a different idea of where things should be placed.

However, Sun, just below the step by step instructions, usually gives
"examples" that include locations that work for most distros.

> The other question is how
> do I make the JAVA tools accessible from any directory? i.e. if I want
> to run a java program I don't need to be in the tools directory, similar
> to PATH in windows.

Well, the best part about installing to /usr/bin is that on most distros
that's a path already in your path variable, so you won't have to do
anything extra to access the tools. Of course if you do install to a
"non" standard area it's very easy to add any path to your path variable
(although how exactly depends on what shell you use, open a new terminal
and type "ps", you'll likely see either bash, csh or tcsh as an entry,
google for that name with "adding path" and you should find what you're
looking for).

TTYL

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