It works!!!! I used the "alternate method" discribed in the link posted above...... it didn't work at first but, I was getting java: command not found ....... does anyone know how to fix this, I have it installed, and I can run it if I type the absolute path (ie. /usr/java/jreXXX/bin/java ) so I just hard coded that line into the runlime.sh script....... I am fairly new to linux though so can someone tell me how to get the java command to work w/o the absolute path..... but anyway it works... I hope this helps someone out and thanks twist