I followed the article from the following link http://mpeters.us/linux/j2sdk.php and successfully got Java working on a 32-bit FC3 machine. The success inspired me to try to get Java working on an AMD64-FC3 machine. So I went back to the above article, this time starting with the "1.5.0 version of the J2SDK", as the article advises. I downloaded jdk-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin and jre-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin. Also retrieved jpackage.asc and jpackage.repo, installed both. After using yum to install jpackage-utils, I got confused. The article continues, saying to get Sun's j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586-rpm.bin, but the top of the article says to use 1.5.0. So, I looked around Sun's website and found a path to 1.5.0 and downloaded jdk-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin. Anticipating success at the end of all these steps, I next used yum to install jedit, leaving as the last step, yum install java-1.4.2-sun-compat but this failed with a "missing dep" error, specifically missing j2sdk. I can't find a java-1.5.0-sun-compat package. Did I go wrong when I decided to look around for 1.5.0? Should I go back, remove 1.5.0, and try to install j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586-rpm.bin ? If you have had some success on an AMD64 FC3 machine getting Java to work - with Jpackage or in some other way - please provide some clue as to how you did it. Or, if you are feeling exceptionally charitable, you might just post all the steps you used to get Java working. Thanks for any help you can give. -- MM
