On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:58:08AM +0100, 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. Peter Boy and Matthew Saltzman, thanks for the explanations/suggestions. I have very simple java needs so I decided not to wait for the updated 'java-1.5.0-....nosrc.rpm' from jkpackage but installed the sun package 'jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin' directly. No problems, but you have to enter links/paths by hand afterwards as usual. When the updated jpackage 'nosrc.rpm' and an updated jpackage-utils become available I will remove the sun package install and build a 'proper' jpackage adjusted rpm. Except for providing some things like 'jvmjar', 'find-jar', etc. and things related to building and packaging instructions the FC3 jpackage-utils essentially only seems to create empty directories. So I suppose it is included by the way of providing proper infrastucture for future java needs. I did not realise I needed it for rpm building. (I hadn't examined it before like I should have done ;)) Alexander
