On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Peter Boy wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 16:52 +0100 schrieb Alexander Volovics: > > So I would like to know if this can result in conflicts with > > the FC3 jpackage-utils (or is there no relation at all between > > the two packages). > > > > And would I still need the jpackage-utils for anything? > > You can install the Sun package and jpackage in parallel. The Sun > installation is buggy vor years now (I suppose they haven't fixed it for > this version -:) ), so you have to made the usual adjustments (search > path and environement variables) manually. > > The jpackage way of installation and Sun's installation differ in the > locations of the files. So you need the jpackage way of installing the > jre / jdk if you intend to use java progs packaged by jpackage > (jpackage-utils doesn't matter, it's just some basic stuff, problems > will arise with real progs like jpackage tomcat). > > The jpackage scheme of installation is quite superior over Sun's way. So > you should install the latest jpackage rpm available and wait some days > until the new release is adopted. Usually they are very quick. > > If you are in a hurry you may install the latest jpackage rpm, install > the latest Sun distrib afterwards and move the Sun delivered Files to > the corresponding jpackage location (a kind of "cold" update). But you > mess with your rpm database this way and it may be worth to wait some > days. 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 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. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
