Re: Why aren't more Linux applications written in Java?
Originally Posted by
WitchCraft
When you ran the apt-get installer (when there were still java packages), you still couldn't run Java programs, because the JAVA_HOME environment variable wasn't set.
Very funny, so the user has to figure out where the hell the JAVA_HOME is, and how the hell to get that into the environment settings.
Certainly not an action that the average garden-variety user perhaps with even questionable english as a foreign language skills is capable of.
This has nothing to do with Java.
There are plenty of package managers thats set JAVA_HOME for you after installing Java. Crunchbang Linux is one such as example... oh yeah and that's using apt-get.
If you have issues setting a path variable, that means you need a better understanding of it. Environment variables are a different matter altogether, not one you can use as an argument against Java.
Last edited by KdotJ; May 24th, 2013 at 11:36 PM.
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