what java RPM?

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Hi,
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... :-)

Thank you.

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[Colin J Thomson]

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

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[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 03.09.2005 schrieb Rakotomandimby Mihamina um 23:19:

>  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... :-) 
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java

A very good and comprehensive article is:

http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4

In the non-free section of http://www.jpackage.org/ you'll find other
skeleton nonsrc.rpms, for Blackdown's version, IBM's ... I would choose
Sun's 1.5.

Alexander


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On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
>  Hi,
>  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? 
Currently we are using Sun's
latest tarball which works well for us. I
did not remember their having an rpm but maybe my memory is going.
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[Thufir]

On 9/4/05, akonstam(a)trinity.edu <akonstam(a)trinity.edu&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina
> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 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?
>  Currently we are using Sun's latest tarball which works well for us. I
>  did not remember their having an rpm but maybe my memory is going. 
I was very excited, when installing FC4 yesterday to discover that
java development tools are now an option under Anaconda.  I was less
than thrilled to discover what I'm using :(

[thufir@localhost ~]$ java --version
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
[thufir@localhost ~]$


=Thufir

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

>  On 9/4/05, akonstam(a)trinity.edu <akonstam(a)trinity.edu&gt; wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 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?
> > Currently we are using Sun's latest tarball which works well for us. I
> > did not remember their having an rpm but maybe my memory is going.
>
>  I was very excited, when installing FC4 yesterday to discover that
>  java development tools are now an option under Anaconda.  I was less
>  than thrilled to discover what I'm using :(
>
>  [thufir@localhost ~]$ java --version
>  java version "1.4.2"
>  gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)
>
>  Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>  [thufir@localhost ~]$ 
Most Javas are not FOSS, so can't be distributed with FC.  See 
jpackage.org for Java (http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java).

>  =Thufir
>
>
>  
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[Thufir]

On 11/8/05, Matthew Saltzman <mjs(a)ces.clemson.edu&gt; wrote:
..
>  Most Javas are not FOSS, so can't be distributed with FC.  See
>  jpackage.org for Java (http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java). 
..

I know.  What I meant was that when I saw the java option in anaconda
I jumped the gun and thought that the Sun JDK was being distributed,
hence my dissapointment :(


-Thufir

[Andrew Overholt]

* THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir(a)gmail.com&gt; [2005-11-08 16:08]:
>  
>  I was very excited, when installing FC4 yesterday to discover that
>  java development tools are now an option under Anaconda.  I was less
>  than thrilled to discover what I'm using :(
>  
>  [thufir@localhost ~]$ java --version
>  java version "1.4.2"
>  gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8) 
Why were you disappointed?  Did something not work as you expected?

Andrew

[Andrew Overholt]

* Rakotomandimby Mihamina <mihamina.rakotomandimby(a)etu.univ-orleans.fr&gt; [2005-09-03
17:43]:
>  I need to install Java on my FC4. I dont want to install it outside
> of
>  any yum or at least RPM packaging.  
Is what Fedora provides not suitable?

>  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... :-) 
/usr/bin/javac is symlinked to ecj (the Eclipse bytecode compiler) in FC.
It shouldn't pose any problems.  /usr/bin/java is symlinked to gij (the GNU
interpreter).

Andrew