On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 14:46 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 14:09, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > Well, what I'm doing is: > > > > > > I'm going to leave the packages installed as they are, and I am currently > > > Downloading the Java SDK5.0 from Sun's official site... It's a massive 131MB > > > download, and in .bin format, so I really hope it gets registered with rpm's > > > db for updates... > > > > It doesn't if you just use the built-in installer. > > > > Grab the Sun .bin package, then get the jpackage.org nosource RPM and > > follow the instructions for building a FC-compatible set of RPMs from the > > .bin. > > Do you have a link to the specific instructions you mean? I always > get lost in the vast quantity of different versions on jpackage.org. Here's how I did it on FC4: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/JpackageJava Same procedure should work on FC5. Paul.
