Re: Star Office not finding JRE

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  I just installed mandrake 7.2 on a new computer and am working on 
>configuring it and installing programs.  I tried to install the
>individual 
>Star Office thing for my main user, josh, but received an error saying
>that Star Office could not find a java runtime enviroment to support java and
>javascript, and thus pgp.
>    So, I installed the Blackdown JRE after adding a few libraries
>(unixOBDC),  but Star Office still doesn't realize it's there.  Even when I 
>try to navigate to the directory during the installation (I believe it's
>/usr/java) Star Office can't find anything.  Any idea what might be causing
>this trouble? Is there some java configuration step I missed?
>   As an aside, I've always thought of mandrake and overly-user-friendly,
>but I  have to admit that 7.2 is absolutely sweet.  Xfree86 4.01, KDE2... this
>is  some cutting edge stuff.

If you look in the Star Office installation directory you will find a README
that discusses this exact subject and gives step-by-step for enabling JAVA in
SO.

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