Java problem

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Dec2007 16:58, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 23:39 +0200, eng.waleed wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> 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.   

It's a third party RPM!
Of course it should install out of the way!
That way you can use Sun's RPM or another RPM, or both!

> For earlier versions of fedora, jpackage.org had a way to fix this 
> breakage, but they seem to have stopped at FC6.

Maybe there should be something in /etc/alternatives...
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