Re: Java on FC6

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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.
>
OK - started again, and this time all is well for the first part - the plugin 
is installed and the link made - I think!  Carrying on with the instructions, 
when I get to 'which java' I see '/usr/bin/java' instead 
of '/opt/jrel......./java'.  Have I gone wrong again?

Anne

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