POST 1: Installing Java on Slackware.

Installing Java on Slackware turned out to be relatively simple. All that you have to do is follow guide in the following page and have the Slackware DVD with you. (If you do not have the DVD, all you need to do is download them from here, put all the files in the same directory and then go to the directory to perform the actions prescribed in the Official Slackware guide)

Official Slackware guide: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:java

Note, however, that you need to make a slight modification to a couple of the commands. Specifically, you need to get the version number of the download correctly. For example, the file I downloaded had the prefix jdk-7u21-x86_64-1, where 7u21 is the latest version of JDK. Be sure to modify the "-xuyz-" part of the command. Also, if you be sure to download the right version of jdk.