Java 2 Runtime Environment Linux Installation Instructions

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Linux Installation Instructions

The installation and configuration process can be broken down into the following steps:

1. Do pre-installation checks
2. Unpack the downloaded file
3. Delete the original file you downloaded (optional)

1. Do pre-installation checks

• Check the size of your downloaded file.

Before proceeding further, check that you have downloaded the entire file:

jre-1_2_2_007-linux-i386.tar.gz

12,437,590 bytes

If you unpack the software or documentation in a directory that contains a directory named jre1.2, the new software will overwrite files of the same name in that jre1.2 directory. Please be careful to rename the old directory if it contains files you would like to keep.

Depending on the format you have downloaded, execute the following command(s) in a shell window:

% tar xvzf jre-1_2_2_007-linux-i386.tar.gz

Or, if you prefer, uncompress and untar the file using 2 separate steps:

1. % gunzip jre-1_2_2_007-linux-i386.tar.gz
   
2. % tar xvf jre-1_2_2_007-linux-i386.tar

This will create a directory called jre1.2 containing the Java 2 Runtime Environment in bin and lib subdirectories.

If you want to recover disk space, delete the file you downloaded.