On Thursday 02 November 2006 19:58, Claude Jones wrote: > 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. > <bangs head in disgust> That sounds like exactly the same problem as I had when I installed it on FC4 </head banging> I'll try again tomorrow, thanks Anne
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