On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 22:19, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
I need to install Java on my FC4. I dont want to install it outside
of
any yum or at least RPM packaging.
I know the sun website provides some rpm.
What about it? it's just for college/studies use, nothing really
serious.
What about Jikes, Blackdown,... what do you use?
Most of the people arroud me use the sun java. I would like to have a
pretty similar way of byte compiling (just javac), so that I can follow
the teaching. Dont want something exotic... :-)
I think you should read this _Excellent_ article by Paul Howarth:
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4
Very clear instructions and works very well indeed :-)
HTH
-Colin
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