<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> David wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:974cfff50905262113t1241321q2c457c54903d01d3@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Newbie question: I'm surprised by the rpm -qf response: "file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package" below. Is it a bug? Should I report it? Where? Or am I missing something? I'm on dialup so I don't have the latest version of everything. If you do, is it the same on your system? Currently I have zero knowledge of java, I just want to try freemind re: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-review/2009-May/msg01176.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-review/2009-May/msg01176.html</a> [root@kablamm ~]# java -version java version "1.6.0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09) OpenJDK Client VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode) [root@kablamm ~]# which java /usr/bin/java [root@kablamm ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/java file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package [root@kablamm ~]# uname -r 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 [root@kablamm ~]# rpm -qa 'java*' java_cup-0.10-0.k.6jpp.2.i386 java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-21.fc9.i386 java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.10.b09.fc9.i386 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.10.b09.fc9.i386 </pre> </blockquote> Hi This is most likely because you are using the alternatives system with Java. If you type alternatives --config java as root it will show you the versions of Java you have installed. In my case its There are 3 programs which provide 'java'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- * 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java 2 /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_10/bin/java + 3 /opt/jdk1.6.0_10/bin/java So /usr/bin/java is a link that is created by the alternatives system rather that a specific rpm In my case doing rpm -qf /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java --- java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.x86_64 rpm -qf /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_10/bin/java --- jdk-1.6.0_10-fcs.x86_64 I hope this helps :) </body> </html>