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Where to find JDK/JRE for Linux?

Updated 7-Jan-1999
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At the moment of this writing there is no Java 1.2
(or Java 2 tm) for Linux yet. In November 1998, Sun
announced JDK 1.2 for Linux, so there is a hope.
The place where you can find the latest
JDK/JRE 1.1 for Linux is:

	http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/

On this page, click on 'Download the JDK for Linux',
and select one mirror site. On the selected ftp site go to:

	JDK<version>/i386/glibc/<v>

For the samples below, the JDK's <version> is '1.1.7',
and <v> is 'v1a'. In this directory you will see many
files but you need do get only one or two of them.
First, any archive has two versions: '...tar.bz2'
and '...tar.gz' depending on the compressor used.
Second, there are files having 'native' in the name
- these are additional optional executables
for native threads (not needed for CPT programs).
Third, there are several choices:

1) full JDK for Java development:

	i18n_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz (2514 Kb)
	jdk_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz (11933 Kb)

2) JRE for running applications:

	jre_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz (6229 Kb)

3) Run time only w/o International files:

	rt_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz (3714 Kb)

For the proper work of CPT programs,
we recommend as minimum the JRE choice.
After downloading the file, extract the
contents into a directory (e.g. /usr/jre117)
and put the line:

	export PATH=/usr/jre117/bin:$PATH

into your '.bashrc' and that's it.

For furher tuning the JRE look at JavaFonts.txt.