jedit

[Nick Pierpoint]

> > I'm trying to install the RPM version of jedit on Fedora Core 2 
> > and as root am getting this error. I'm fairly new to 
> > Fedora/Linux. Can anyone help?
> > 
> > [root at localhost boettiger]# rpm -i jedit-4.2-0.pre14.1jpp.src.rpm
> > warning: jedit-4.2-0.pre14.1jpp.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, 
> > key ID c431416 d
> > error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> 
> You're trying to install the source code (.src.rpm). You probably wanted
> the binary RPM (.i386.rpm I'd think).

I suggest using yum to install jedit. Its available in the jpackage
repository (www.jpackage.org)

I have the following lines in /etc/yum.conf:

#
# JPackage (Java repository)
#
[jpackage15-generic]
name=JPackage 1.5 for Cross Platform Packages
baseurl=http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/jpackage/1.5/generic/free/
#gpgcheck=1

(There may be a more appropriate mirror site - all details at the
jpacage site. Also, I've commented out the gpgcheck line here - the
instructions to switch it on are on the jpackage site)

Then you just type (as root)

    yum install jedit

Now, you can't get much simpler than that :-)

--
nick