2014-02-22, 14:15
(2014-02-22, 12:42)tomtomme Wrote: thanks - good hint
I am such a linux noob still after 10 years desktop usage :/
however package management said java was installed, but "which" told the truth - I re-installed java, and now it works and is compiling right now
Which just told you that the java binary is/was not on your users path (where it searches for the binarys) reinstall may have added the binary location to your path but may be otherwise completely unnessecary.
http://www.linfo.org/path_env_var.html
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?which
Just to provide a little linux basics