FC4 / java / bin files

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jul 19 17:48:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:25 -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:09 -0300, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > I am trying to get java working in fc4 and in particular version 1.5.
> > I downloaded this file:
> > 
> > jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> > 
> > And thought I could 'run' that file to produce an RPM file. From there,
> > I should have been able to install it.
> > 
> > No luck.
> > 
> > Where have I gone wrong?
> > 
> 
> First, you haven't read the release notes for FC4 that explicitly said
> not to use the RPM from Sun....
> 
> Second, take a look at www.fedoranews.org as there have been a couple of
> articles over there about getting Java installed in FC4....

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

This method results in getting Fedora-compatible RPMs installed, but
starts from the non-RPM package on the Sun site, so you'd need to
download another big file.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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