On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:28 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 22/04/06, Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:05 -0400, Marc M wrote: > > > I am having trouble getting my java plugin to work properly. I am > > > trying to run a cbt on a training website and firefox sends me to the > > > java site for the plugin. I have downloaded the rpm.bin file, run the > > > script, chmodded the rpm to 777, and I still get the following. > > > > > > Does anyone have any good updated yum locations where I can just grab > > > a good file with some updated repo's, that are likely to fix all of > > > these dependencies? > > > > Assuming you're running 32-bit FC5, go here for instructions. > > > > http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Java > > > > Coincidentally I followed that this morning before seeing this thread > (well the identical, to my eyes, version from > <http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4>). That's basically the same article as the one I mentioned earlier from my own site (http://www.city-fan.org/tips/JpackageJava). I'm the author. > While I found it relatively painless I have three comments, the first two > are technical: OK, thanks for the feedback. > It assumes the user is set up to sudo things like yum, this isn't the > default on Fedora, so su - -c"" might be more appropriate. That's a good point. I'll give that a try. Or maybe write something on using sudo and linking to that. > It uses > ~/rpmbuild, which is certainly good practice, but doesn't mention that > you need a file (~/.rpmmacros I think) set up for this to work. The article does however tell you how to set up an rpm build environment, which covers this. > Finally, for simplicity it might be worth having a script which does this > all for you. That's a possibility but a downside of that is that such a script would probably end up getting circulated amongst people on mailing lists, forums etc., and would then stop working when for instance Sun released a new version of Java. Having a URL for a website where up to date instructions can be found doesn't suffer from that problem. Cheers, Paul.
