On Monday 04 December 2006 11:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 04 December 2006 09:53, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >>> I'd just download the one RPM from the Web site. I don't think there >>> are any dependencies to worry about and you are rebuilding the binary >>> RPM anyway. >> >> That 'one' rpm, can you name it so I might be able to find it with a >> google search? > >Already told you how to find it in a previous post. > >> Browsing the instructions on that site it says I *must* have >> jpackage-utils but thats not available either in browsing the site, >> nor to yumex. Presumably because there are no fc5 or fc6 versions in >> the mirrorlist site. > >FC6 includes a jpackage-utils to support the derivatives mentioned > below. > And yum says a 1.6.6 version of that is installed. But following the files paths displayed by yumex for that archive, its not there. 2 of the files listed: /usr/share/build-classpath /usr/share/java-utils/build-classpath-directory The only thing at that location is: [root@coyote java-utils]# ls java-functions It should, I'd think, have an executable, but it's invisible to me. Somebody bring a chain saw, I can't see the trees for all this forest. & taint funny. >> Humm, would you believe that unpacking the 1.5.0.10.bin actually >> installed it in /usr/java! And OpenOffice found it and is apparently >> happy with it. Now to hunt down the old ff install and see how I'd >> setup the links to make it work for fc2, and dup them. There is after >> all, a ready supply of cats to skin. :-) >> >>> There are some jpackage derivatives in FC, so last I read (in FC5), >>> adding jpackage as a repo and running updates was "considered >>> harmful" unless you wanted to go all jpackage for those RPMs. >> >> Hummm... Thanks for the warning. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
