Hi

I'm having problems installing processing onto fedora

Recently I have reinstalled my fedora OS onto my machine and it doesn't work now

It's strange because I got it to work easily before just by copying over the files to /usr/local/

Now, following my old method I can't get it to work

extract to Downloads folder

mv /home/bigMan/Downloads/processing-1.5.1/ /usr/local/

// to fix one beef

// bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

yum install glibc.i686

//to run it

/usr/local/processing-1.5.1/./processing

I just get a bunch of messages about missing java files

I read this online

Most problems on Linux come from the version of Java that's included in the download being incompatible with the OS. In that case, remove (or rename) the included ‘java’ folder, and replace it with a usable version of the JDK (not just the JRE!), or symlink it to a full JDK that's installed on your machine. Be sure that the symlink is set up relative to the ‘processing’ shell script such that ./java/bin/java points to the ‘java’ binary. Take a look at the folder structure of the included ‘java’ folder to see how it works. 

I've been playing with sym linking to Other downloaded javas with no joy

// first what I do is get the java folder inside processing folder and rename it

Then try sum linking 

ln -s /usr/bin/java /usr/local/processing-1.5.1/

or

ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0/bin/ /usr/local/processing-1.5.1/java

doesnt work, even if I link to 1.7 Jdk it tells me Jdk 1.5 or over is required

Any tips anyone?

It worked ' out of the box' before with no tweaking , would hate to have to go back to windows to do processing

Cheers

Tom