On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Peter Boy wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 20:06 -0500 schrieb Matthew Saltzman: > > The quick and dirty way to install Sun's Java is to install Sun's 1.4.2 > > RPM and install the JPackage java-1.4.2-sun-compat RPM. The compat RPM > > installs all the JPackage links and directs them to the locations of the > > Sun files. > > The OP wished to use the most recent Java release for which a jpackage > rpm is not available yet. I'm not shure weather the compatibility rpm > for an older version will work with it. At a minimum the links must be > adjusted. > > > The best way is to install the JPackage SRPM, copy Sun's tarball (don't > > install it) and build the RPMs for yourself. You'll want the updated > > jpackage-utils for this. > > > You are right, of course! But they are not available yet for the most > recent release. The change to the spec file for the java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.06 SRPM is pretty trivial. I think it is only necessary to change the definition of buildver. There's a little script from Jason Corley that fixes a problem with symlinks that prevents to RPM from building if you don't have a JPackage JVM installed already, but other than that, it appears to build fine. Jason's script is at http://lists.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2004-December/011935.html Having said that, I am having Java applets crashing in Firefox, but I'm not sure that's a Java issue. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
