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Java installation and configuration

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  • 21-10-2004 7:21pm
    #1
    -oRnein9-
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    Please help I have installed java on win xp, I have set the path and classpath but I still cant get it to work I need to get it running urgently for college so a detailled explanation of how to install would be greatly apprechiated, btw whats the difference between sdk and jdk? which one should i be installing? Or maybe is there a "java" that installs itself which would save me a bit of hastle.
    Thanks


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    MrPinK
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    Open up a command prompt, type 'echo %CLASSPATH%' and 'echo %PATH%' and post up what it prints


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    -oRnein9-
    Registered Users Posts: 930 ✭✭✭-oRnein9-


    echo %CLASSPATH% gives
    C:\java

    echo %PATH% gives
    C:\java\bin;C:\java\bin;(followed by some strange symbols that I can't locate on the keyboard)

    I set these path's


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    MrPinK
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    Don't think they are set correctly. For classpath, you need to include the current working directory, which is refered to by a full stop. Set it to:
    C:\java;.

    The path needs to point to the directory where java.exe and javac.exe are located. If you installed the jdk/sdk (jdk is just the old name for the sdk) to C:\java then that path is probably ok, take a look if the two files are there. If you installed it to the default location and are using the c:\java for your own code, then it's probably something like 'C:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\bin', do a search for the files.


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    -oRnein9-
    Registered Users Posts: 930 ✭✭✭-oRnein9-


    Ah I still can't get it to work I searched for those files and I set the CLASSPATH to C:\java;. and I set the PATH to C:\java\jdk\bin which is the correct location as I did a file search. Any ideas? whats going wrong.


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    #6
    MrPinK
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    What do you get when you run java or javac from the command line?


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    -oRnein9-
    Registered Users Posts: 930 ✭✭✭-oRnein9-


    Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

    C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Irving.RULETHACKARD>javac test.java
    error: cannot read: test.java
    1 error

    C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Irving.RULETHACKARD>javac Circus.java

    C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Irving.RULETHACKARD>


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    MrPinK
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    Seems to me like java is setup properly, or else it would be a different error you'd be getting. You sure the files are in the directory C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Irving.RULETHACKARD?


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