which package to install to get javac?

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/07/2012 03:55 PM, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 7.5.2012 05:47, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> sorry for asking an elementary question, but I have iced-tea installed, but javac
>> is not present, I should do a
>> # yum whatprovides javac
>> but I thought that it should have been already present, something like
>> java-openjdk or similar, which is the package that provides javac?, so I can
>> compile java programs?
>
> Also
>
> yum install /usr/bin/javac
>
> should just work, doesn't it?
>
>

I feel it better to do

yum install */bin/javac

I would do that in the case where you didn't know which directory it actually resides
in...  And in this case it happens to be /bin/javac  (sort of....  :-) )

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