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<SECT2 ID="INSTALLINGJAVA">
  <TITLE>Installing Java</TITLE>
  <PARA>
Before installing &prog; you will need to make sure you have Java installed.
Please note that the version of Java that comes with Netscape and Internet
Explorer is not sufficient to run &prog;.
  </PARA>
  <ITEMIZEDLIST>
    <LISTITEM>
      <PARA>
UNIX users should get Java version 1.1 from the <ULINK
URL="http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/">Sun JDK 1.1 download page</ULINK>
or the <ULINK URL="http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/java-ports.cgi">JDK 1.1 ports
page</ULINK> (Newer versions will also work, but may have problems on some
platforms.) 
      </PARA>
    </LISTITEM>
    <LISTITEM>
      <PARA>
<ULINK URL="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux</ULINK> users should install the
<ULINK URL="http://www.blackdown.org/">Blackdown.org</ULINK> release of <ULINK
URL="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/">JRE
version 1.4.1</ULINK>.  The Sun versions of Java 1.3.1, 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 have
various long-standing bugs (<ULINK
URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/kmr/4533641.html">4533641</ULINK>, <ULINK
URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/kmr/4627564.html">4627564</ULINK>) which
make them unsuitable for Artemis.  Newer releases from Sun may fix these
problems.
      </PARA>
    </LISTITEM>
    <LISTITEM>
      <PARA>
Windows users should get Java <ULINK
URL="http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/">version 1.3</ULINK> or better
from <ULINK
URL="http://www.sun.com">Sun Microsystems</ULINK>.
On some versions of Windows (such as Windows 2000) you will need be have
administrator privileges for your machine to successfully install Java.
      </PARA>
    </LISTITEM>
    <LISTITEM>
      <PARA>
Macintosh users with MacOS version 8 or 9 should install the <ULINK
URL="http://developer.apple.com/java/text/download.html">Macintosh Runtime
for Java (MRJ)</ULINK> version 2.2 or better before downloading &prog;.
Macintosh users with MacOS X (ie MacOS version 10) or better do not need to
install Java because it comes as a standard feature of the operating system.
Note, however, that Java on the older versions of MacOS X has has irritating
bugs so we recommend using the latest version of MacOS, which runs &prog; well.
      </PARA>
    </LISTITEM>
  </ITEMIZEDLIST>
</SECT2>