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. -- 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) For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
