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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: JRE required - OpenOffice 2 (beta)
I installed openoffice rpms from the openoffic.org site. The rpms contain a program called base. This program requires JRE.
Anyway, I'd like to experiment with this program. I have not ever installed Java on my linux computer before.
What runtime package is needed and how would you compile and install it to work with OpenOffice.org? I tried to compile a nosrc package and did not have much success with my attempts. (java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.01-1jpp.nosrc.rpm). Is this the correct package required?
Any leads appreciated.
Jim
http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Get the Linux RPM (self-extracting file) and run it (sh jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin). You'll have to deal with the license agreement claptrap and then you'll end up with a Java RPM called jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.rpm
rpm -ivh that package and you're done. No need to compile anything.
Thomas
