On 20 Aug 2003, it was written:

> > you also need the redhat libraries, get the package from an ftp site.
> >
>
> when i did this, make install I'm pretty sure it went and got the redhat
> binaries for me, unless i already had them. But I did an install from
> floppy and java was the first thing I got running. (although I remember
> running make install twice not sure what went wrong)

it should get them for you. if he hasn't heard of ports though, i thought
it likely he hadn't installed libraries which would cause the java install
to fail.


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