[fedora-java] Re: Replacing FC4 Free Java with SUN's Java

[Robin Green]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:44:00 -0600, C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
> Now, FC4 has java stuff all over and config stuff all over.
> 
> Rather than learning what it is (although I had not found documentation 
> that explains all the details) I prefer to remove everything and do it 
> the good old manual way.

OK. You "can" do yum remove libgcj.

HOWEVER, THIS WILL REMOVE OPEN OFFICE, ECLIPSE, AND ALL JAVA PACKAGES
- because yum remove is dumb and doesn't know about alternative JDK
packages. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Also, I don't know how to remove all the links that point into
/etc/alternatives in one fell swoop.
 
> I've also tried jpackage but I did not like it. Again, no control and
> non-free is not as easy to install.

No control? Does it really matter that much where in the filesystem tree
things get installed? I suggest you start learning to like JPackage.

As for non-free not being easy, there are now -compat packages so it's as
easy as installing the Sun JDK RPM and then installing the -compat RPM
from jpackage.org. No rpm building needed any more!

-- 
Robin