Java problem
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 23:42:13 UTC 2007
Craig White wrote:
>>>> I installed the jre from the file jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin and it
>>>> give me done with no prob , but there is no java file in /usr/bin/ ,
>>>> can any one suggest some thing about that ?
>>> ----
>>> look in /usr/java
>>>
>>> if you know what you want, you can create a symbolic link in /usr/bin
>>> but that should never be necessary.
>> It's too bad that RedHat and Sun can't agree on where java should live.
>> For earlier versions of fedora, jpackage.org had a way to fix this
>> breakage, but they seem to have stopped at FC6.
> ----
> patience...
>
> They are finally getting around to licensing it under GPL, things are
> finally stabilizing.
Having everyone do things their own way is your idea of stabilizing?
Who would it have hurt for either RH to make a system where Sun's
packaging would drop in and run or for Sun to package it to match RH's
arbitrary locations? I never quite got the point of an RPM package that
didn't work.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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