What do I need to do to resolve the issue of getting a SIGSEGV error when evaluating InstallJava under Linux versions of Mathematica?

Newer versions of Linux come with a newer version of a library required by J/Link. You may have downloaded the general Unix/Linux version of J/Link which will not work with most current versions of Linux. The general Unix/Linux version of J/Link will only work with old versions of Linux that use the libc5 library.

You need to use a special version of J/Link which has been compiled for all Linuxes with glibc2.1 and later, which basically means all recent Linux distributions.

This version of J/Link has the native library already compiled against a special version of the MathLink library for glibc2.1.

If you did install the generic Unix/Linux version of J/Link, you should remove this version and then download the correct version. You can download both versions from the following URL:

http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink/download.cgi

For more information on webMathematica, please go to the main webMathematica page.

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