what java RPM?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

> On 9/4/05, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I need to install Java on my FC4. I dont want to install it outside of
>>> any yum or at least RPM packaging.
>>> I know the sun website provides some rpm.
>>> What about it? it's just for college/studies use, nothing really
>>> serious.
>>>
>>> What about Jikes, Blackdown,... what do you use?
>> Currently we are using Sun's latest tarball which works well for us. I
>> did not remember their having an rpm but maybe my memory is going.
>
> I was very excited, when installing FC4 yesterday to discover that
> java development tools are now an option under Anaconda.  I was less
> than thrilled to discover what I'm using :(
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> [thufir at localhost ~]$ java --version
> java version "1.4.2"
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)
>
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> [thufir at localhost ~]$

Most Javas are not FOSS, so can't be distributed with FC.  See 
jpackage.org for Java (http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java).

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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