On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 17:25 +0100, michael wrote: > I've had a quick lot but got confused -- is there a JRE and JDK/SDK that > comes with Fedora FC7? > Thanks, M > This is for Intel Core2 Duo, so I've downloaded AMD64 (same instruction set) from java.com and then (as per http://java.com/en/download/help/5000011300.xml#download) run the binary: mkb@veri:~/src$ su Password: [root@veri src]# cd /usr;ls bin games kerberos lib64 local share tmp etc include lib libexec sbin src [root@veri usr]# cd local;ls bin games lib libexec matlab_7_4_DVD share etc include lib64 matlab_7_4 sbin src [root@veri local]# mkdir java [root@veri local]# cd java [root@veri java]# chmod a+x ~mkb/src/jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin [root@veri java]# ls -l ~mkb/src/jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 mkb mkb 17643526 2007-10-12 17:45 /home/mkb/src/jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin [root@veri java]# ~mkb/src/jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement for the JAVA SE RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT (JRE) VERSION 6 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE SOFTWARE IDENTIFIED BELOW TO YOU ONLY UPON THE CONDITION THAT YOU ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS BINARY CODE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSE TERMS {snip} Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] yes Unpacking... Checksumming... Extracting... UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). inflating: jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:jre ########################################### [100%] Unpacking JAR files... rt.jar... jsse.jar... charsets.jar... localedata.jar... Done. [root@veri java]# ls -alt total 17476 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:48 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17846983 2007-09-25 08:53 jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm but both yum and rpm fail to do anything more (unlike the instructions): [root@veri java]# yum localinstall ./jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm Setting up Local Package Process Examining ./jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm: jre - 1.6.0_03-fcs.x86_64 ./jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm: does not update installed package. Nothing to do [root@veri java]# ls -alt total 17476 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:48 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17846983 2007-09-25 08:53 jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm [root@veri java]# rpm -iv jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm Preparing packages for installation... package jre-1.6.0_03-fcs is already installed [root@veri java]# ls jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm [root@veri java]# ie there is no jre* subdir... Any ideas what's going on? thanks, Michael
