>>> Hi
>>> I installed the jre from the file jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin and it
>>> give me done with no prob , but there is no java file in /usr/bin/ ,
>>> can any one suggest some thing about that ?
>> ----
>> look in /usr/java
>>
>> if you know what you want, you can create a symbolic link in /usr/bin
>> but that should never be necessary.
> It's too bad that RedHat and Sun can't agree on where java should live.
It's a third party RPM!
Of course it should install out of the way!
That way you can use Sun's RPM or another RPM, or both!
> For earlier versions of fedora,
jpackage.org had a way to fix this
> breakage, but they seem to have stopped at FC6.
Maybe there should be something in /etc/alternatives...
Or maybe no one should have ever shipped an imitation java that doesn't
meet the spec and called it java in the first place.
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