Jave Run Time for Fedora 7 - where from?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Wed Oct 24 15:59:12 UTC 2007


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:46:19AM -0400, Kelly Miller wrote:
> 
>    On 10/24/07, Chris G <[1]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
>      Where does one get a JRE for Fedora 7 - specifically for running
>      Java
>      Applets in Firefox?
> 
>    Fedora includes the GCJ Java runtime and Classpath by default.  It
>    supports a large chunk of standard Java.  If you want to run Sun's
>    official JRE, though, you have to go to Sun's Java website and get
>    it.  Or search for the Tigro repository, which also includes the handy
>    JPackage compatibility package for Sun's Java, allowing use of any
>    Java class in Fedora with the Sun JRE...
> 
OK, thanks all, I'm quite happy to get the JRE from Sun, I just
wondered if there was a more 'Fedora' way of doing it.

-- 
Chris Green




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