Thanks! The package installed slowly, but successfully. Now to figure out how to get Openoffice 2 to use this JRE.
Edit the /etc/profile file's PATH to read:
# Path manipulation if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then pathmunge <location of java bin directory> pathmunge /sbin pathmunge /usr/sbin pathmunge /usr/local/sbin fi
This will add the Java binaries location to the PATH statement for all users.
-- James McKenzie