Missing JRE
350543Nov 27 2003 — edited Dec 5 2003Hi,
I'm having a problem installing oracle 8.1.7 on Linux (SuSE 8.1 Pro).
When I run the installer, I get the following message.
oracle@EC00367:/media/cdrom> ./runInstaller
oracle@EC00367:/media/cdrom> The Java RunTime Environment was not found at `/bin/jre. Hence, the Oracle Universal Installer cannot be run.
Please visit http://www.javasoft.com and install JRE version 1.1.8 or higher and try again.
I've looked on internet for a solution, and although the problem seems to occur sometimes, no solution is provided on internet.
Yes, I do have java jre installed, even more than once.
I have on my system
java2-jre-1.3.1-495 in /usr/lib/java and /usr/lib/java2 (comes standard with SuSE)
j2re-1.4.2_01-fcs in /usr/jara/j2re1.4.2_01 (rpm installed for OpenOffice 1.1)
These are my environment variables for java:
JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib/java/jre/bin
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jre
JAVA_ROOT=/usr/lib/java
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jre
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/gnome/bin
Note the single quote before the /bin/jre in the message. Probably Oracle is expecting this /bin not at the root.
I have no clue to where oracle might expect it, but....
I've make symbolic links in /bin, /bin/jre, /usr/bin, /usr/bin/jre to 1.3.1 and later to 1.4.2, but still get the same message.
I'm really stuck, I do not know what to do next.
In the installation manual it says "Oracle Universal Installer automatically installs Oracle's version of JRE". This does not happen.
Anyone out there a suggestion ?