On Thu November 2 2006 2:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > I assumed that Stanton Finlay's FC5 instructions would be near > enough to get me going, but I seem to be brain-dead today. I > got to the point where he says I should make a link, but it > seems to me that I need more steps before that. /opt now > contains jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.rpm, and not the > subdirectories that he lists in the link. 'yum localinstall' > said it couldn't open the rpm. 'rpm -Uvh' lists failed > dependencies. > > I know that people are using java with FC6, so what am I > missing? > > Anne Sounds like you downloaded the wrong file. I just used his instructions a few days ago to install Java to my FC6 box, so they do work. I can't get to it now, but I recall there being a self-extracting rpm and .bin file. If you run one of them, you get the rpm, if you run the other, you get the directory structure he speaks of. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA
