Hello Mark I just did a upgrade rpm -Uvh jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.rpm it will handle previous version to install plugin for firefox just link to firefox plugin /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so to your path/firefox/plugins/ if you use mozilla then /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
if you want to run java class program on console you can link /usr/java/jre1.5.0/bin/java to /usr/bin/
hope it help
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 10:03 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
Has anyone installed the latest and greatest JRE? I just did and found that the RPM package installed, I did an upgrade instead of an install, but I don't see any files for it and it didn't seem to upgrade anything. Should I blow the existing version away (1.4.2) and install 1.5 fresh?
Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@interactsys.com Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 10:01:36 up 1:52, 2 users, load average: 2.50, 2.30, 2.13