On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:19, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, bruce wrote: > > hi.. > > > > Can someone please tell me whay it's apparently difficult to install java > > sdk on FC4... > > Sun's licensing terms preclude distribution by third parties. > > > it appears that i have to do ... > > http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4 > > > > or, is there a rpm package that i can get my hands on... > > That *is* the RPM package. It's just that you have to build it yourself. > > The JPackage RPMs are designed to integrate properly with Fedora. The Sun > RPMs are broken. The Sun .bin distribution doesn't integrate at all. If > all you want is the browser plugin, it doesn't matter much, but if you are > doing anything more sophisticated than that, you definitely want to follow > the JPackage Way. > > It looks scary at first, but it's really not that hard... > Matthew, I've been trying to get Azureus working, and it looks like java problems, so I tried to follow this. Version numbers have moved on, but I got the Sun package. I hit problems with finding the jpackage, though. I got as far as http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/non-free/ but I can't find any package that looks to be right. Could you take a look and re-direct me, please? Anne
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