On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 22:19, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > I need to install Java on my FC4. I dont want to install it outside of > any yum or at least RPM packaging. > I know the sun website provides some rpm. > What about it? it's just for college/studies use, nothing really > serious. > > What about Jikes, Blackdown,... what do you use? > > Most of the people arroud me use the sun java. I would like to have a > pretty similar way of byte compiling (just javac), so that I can follow > the teaching. Dont want something exotic... :-) I think you should read this _Excellent_ article by Paul Howarth: http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4 Very clear instructions and works very well indeed :-) HTH -Colin -- Fedora Core 4, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.13-ck1 KDE-Redhat-3.4.2-1.2.fc4.kde Registered Linux user number #342953
