On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 21:40 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote: > >Fedora is a community project - if people want to pitch in to integrate > >Sun's Java more easily, great, I'm all for it. > > > >As it is distributed, the license is still restrictive and none of the > >repositories will touch the packaging which means that you have to get > >the software from Sun and rely upon their assistance (which is minimal) > >to install / integrate. > > > >In the meantime, Red Hat and Fedora are distributing a free version that > >mostly works, on all platforms, without restrictive licensing, thereby > >providing a working Tomcat, Eclipse, etc. I guess I fail to see what the > >complaint is. > > > >I don't recall ever seeing you post on something that you couldn't get > >done with the GCJ version so I suspect that you are just downloading and > >playing with the Sun version of Java because you think you need to do > >that. > > > >To the OP, I think I gave you a reasonable method to install either > >Sun's JDK or JRE and to create the environmental variables so that each > >user has full access to the Sun version. > > > >Craig > > Actually, Sun's Java is very easy to install and configure on both 32 > and 64 bit. The only real problem is the lack of a 64bit browser > plugin and as far as I can tell nspluginwrapper doesn't work with the > 32bit version. > > I did a short page on how to set up Sun's Java on F8; > > http://www.knutejohnson.com/sun-java-on-F8.html ---- I agree with the following notations... you should probably install the compat-libstdc++-33 PRIOR to installing the Sun JRE/JDK shouldn't you? If you do a 'yum localinstall jre/jdk-VERSION' it will automatically install requisite packages such as the compaat-libstdc++-33 Your notations don't provide methodologies for setting JAVA_HOME/JRE_HOME/CLASSPATH environment variables which are necessary for virtually everything other than the java web browser plugin. This of course was the crux of the OP - java's bin isn't installed in a users $PATH. Craig
