Re: Java problem with Fedora 16 x86_64

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hullo All,
>> I am running Octave 3.4.3 on Fedora 16 x86_64.
>> I installed java-1.2.8 from octave-forge, and used 'install -verbose' which
>> showed it installed without any errors or problems.
>> When I run some code which uses java I get the following error...
>> error: java_invoke:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/client/libjvm.so:
>> failed to load:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/client/libjvm.so:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> The message is correct, as there is no '...amd64/client' dir.
>> There is an '...amd64/server/libjvm.so'.
>>
>> My java (opendjk) packages are all installed from the Fedora repository.
>>
>> Does anyone know what might be going on here?
>>
>> Would a possible solution be for me (as su) create the '...amd64/client' dir
>> with copy of libjvm.so?
>
> A symlink should be enough.

Note that I'm not sure what the problem is, it might be a packaging
issue. On my Fedore 16 install, the file is provided by
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-61.1.10.4.fc16.i686 package.

Michael.