Re: Java problem

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On Friday 28 December 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> I installed the jre from the file jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin and it
>>>>> give me done with no prob , but there is no java file in /usr/bin/ ,
>>>>> can any one suggest some thing about that ?
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> look in /usr/java
>>>>
>>>> if you know what you want, you can create a symbolic link in /usr/bin
>>>> but that should never be necessary.
>>>
>>> It's too bad that RedHat and Sun can't agree on where java should live.
>>
>> It's a third party RPM!
>> Of course it should install out of the way!
>> That way you can use Sun's RPM or another RPM, or both!
>>
>>> For earlier versions of fedora, jpackage.org had a way to fix this
>>> breakage, but they seem to have stopped at FC6.
>>
>> Maybe there should be something in /etc/alternatives...
>
>Or maybe no one should have ever shipped an imitation java that doesn't
>meet the spec and called it java in the first place.

+5 at least, Les.

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