what java RPM?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 03.09.2005 schrieb Rakotomandimby Mihamina um 23:19:

> 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?
> 
> Most of the people arroud me use the sun java. I would like to have a
> pretty similar way of byte compiling (just javac), so that I can follow
> the teaching. Dont want something exotic... :-)

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java

A very good and comprehensive article is:

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

In the non-free section of http://www.jpackage.org/ you'll find other
skeleton nonsrc.rpms, for Blackdown's version, IBM's ... I would choose
Sun's 1.5.

Alexander


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