I reinstalled SuSE the other day. It's the first time in a while that I've had linux running. Everything has been going good with it except I wrote a program in java and when I went to compile it I got unknown command for javac.
For future refernce to anyone trying to do this who may need it spelled out for them. javaSDK is not installed with the default instaltion of personal. I don't know about professional. What you need to do is go to java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html and download the rpm.bin.
Go to the directory and type
chmod u+x j2sdk-*.bin
./j2sdk-1_4_2_05-*.bin
rpm -Uvh j2sdk-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.rpm

Then a couple more things to set the path.
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05/bin
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:.

Now you should just be able to type
javac programname.java
java programname

The reason I'm putting this here is because it took me two days to figure this out reading through the documentation not knowing what I was looking for. Asking on forums and getting Oh you just neede to set the path to so and so and not getting a straight answer. I hope it helps someone out in the future.
SuSE offers a free copy of SuSE personal at http://www.suse.com/us/private/downl...l_iso_int.html if anyone wants to try it out. Or you can get it at www.linuxiso.org.