rwhart@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks guys,
First, I downloaded the sun rpm, and it installed in /usr/java/jdk....
You'll probably find the Sun rpm gets uninstalled mysteriously since it
has dependencies incompatible with the way all the other Fedora repos
work. That's why the FC4 release notes advise against installing the Sun
RPM.
I had downloaded all the packages from jpackage and built the rpms but I do
not want to deal with that every time ( I am a physician not a programmer and
am very new to Java.)
The one question I do not yet have the answer to is what does xxxx.compat
stand for when I see a package with this name listed on jpackage.org?
I *think* it tries to fix the problem described above.
I will probably go the route of the tar.gz and place them in /usr
or /usr/local with appropriate sym links.
If you can't be bothered with the JPackage RPMs, that's probably the
best way.
Paul.
