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Windows
The JRE 1.6 for Windows is in following folder:
<CD-ROM drive>:\Software\Java\JRE6\Windows\
Under Windows the installation of Java is very simple. You just have to start
the setup and follow the instructions on the screen - that’s it. You can skip the
next paragraph.
Linux
Under Linux the installation doesn’t present any major problems although
some distributions require some manual work.
In the folder:
<CD-ROM drive>:\Software\Java\JRE6\
you will find the JRE1.6 as an RPM (SuSE, RedHat etc.) and as a
self-extracting archive “.bin“. Under Linux it is advisable to look for Java
packages in the package manager of your distribution (keywords e.g. „java“,
„sun“, „jre“, „java6“ ...) and use the packages of your distribution rather than
those on the CD-ROM! However make sure to install Java 6 (=1.6) or a newer
version but definitely not an older one!
Under Ubuntu or Debian, the RPM archive doesn’t work directly. You will have
to use the package manager of your distribution to find a suitable installation
package. The RPM should however work well with many other distributions
like RedHat/Fedora and SuSE. If not, you always have the solution to unpack
the JRE (e.g. to /usr/lib/Java6) from the self-extracting archive (.bin) and set
manually the paths to the JRE (PATH and JAVA_HOME etc.).
Please refer to the installation instructions from Sun that you will find also in
the above mentioned directory and on the Java website (see above).