[Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: java (sun), java-openjdk and java-gcj

[Walter Cazzola]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Deepak Bhole wrote:

> Just went through the bcel package ... looks like it has a specific
> requirement on java-gcj-compat. There is no way around that requirement
> at your endpoint.

Ok, I see

> However, now that you have the compat package installed for Sun, you
> can set alternatives to use that jvm. Install everything you need, let
> it install OpenJDK and GCJ, and then as root, run:

> alternatives --config java
> alternatives --config javac

> And select the Sun version in both cases, and your system will use that
> for everything from there on.

uhm, yes this is a solution even if the compat package wasn't necessary
another alternatives is to install the packages without yum (tgz) but I
prefer to keep you to have the automatic updating of at the libraries.

Thanks for the help
Walter

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