Verifying Your Setup

This section helps you confirm that your development environment is set up correctly.

Skip to the section that corresponds to the toolkit you downloaded.

Java

This section ensures that you have the correct versions of JDK installed. These instructions pertain to Linux.

Verifying the JDK Installation

To verify the JDK installation

  1. Open a console window.

  2. Enter the following command:

    java -version

    The command response should be similar to the following.

    java version "1.5.0_05"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

If you do not get the appropriate response, go to Sun Microsystems, Inc. and check the Java documentation to ensure you have installed everything correctly.

C#

This section ensures that you have correctly installed Microsoft Visual Studio.

To confirm the installation

  1. Open Visual Studio 2005 C# Express Edition.

  2. Select Microsoft Visual Studio from the Help > menu.

    A dialog box opens that lists Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.

Perl

To confirm your Perl installation

  1. Change directories to the Perl installation directory or make sure the installation directory is in your PATH environment variable and run the following command.

    perl -version

    The response should be similar to the following.

    This is perl, v5.6.0 built for Linux-2.4c2.3-i686
    Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
  2. If the response you receive is dissimilar from the preceding, reinstall Perl.

  3. Run the following commands.

    perl -MDigest::SHA1 -e 1
    perl -MBundle::LWP -e 1
    perl -MXML::Simple -e 1
  4. If you receive any error messages, reinstall the required Perl modules.

PHP

To ensure that you have correctly installed PHP

  1. Use a command-line interface to run the following command.

    php -version
    [Note]Note

    This command assumes you are either in your PHP installation directory or it is in your PATH environment variable.

    The response should be similar to the following.

    PHP 5.1.2 (cli) (built: Jan 11 2006 16:40:00)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
  2. If the response you receive is dissimilar from the preceding, reinstall PHP.

VB.NET

This section ensures that you have correctly installed Microsoft Visual Basic.

To confirm the installation

  1. Open Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.

  2. Select Microsoft Visual Studio from the Help > menu.

    A dialog box opens that lists Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.