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[Mark Haney]

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Kam Leo wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:22:32 -0500 (EST), Matthew Saltzman
> <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote: 
>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Mark Haney wrote:
>> 
>>>> The best source for Java for FC is jpackage.org.  A bit of a
>>>> learning curve, but it generally works much better than the Sun
>>>> RPMs. 
>> 
>> I've added a layer of '>''s to mark the part of your message that was
>> a quote of my message.  If you could configure your mail client to
>> quote messages in a similar way, that would help readability.
>> 
>>> Does the jpackage version work with Firefox in FC3?
>> 
>> The jpackage Java RPMs require that you grab the Sun (or other)
>> compiler as a tarball and the jpackage nosource RPM, then build the
>> RPMs yourself. The instructions are on the jpackage.org site.
>> 
>> I'm using (slightly older, slightly modified) jpackage Sun RPMs with
>> Sun's
>> 1.5.0_01 source, and they are working fine.
>> 
> 
> Sun offers a Linux rpm package for the latest version of the JRE,
> 1.5.0 Update 2.  There is no need to compile the source unless you
> want the source for another purpose.  Just go to
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp, click on the "Download
> JRE 5.0 Update 2" link., agree to the license agreement, and download
> the JRE, Netbeans or the source.  It's your choice.     

I have used that version, and I never could get it to work with Firefox.
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