RE: automated installation for RHL + JAVA

[Andreas Abeck <andreas freever com>]

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> I install Sun's JDK 1.4.1_02 with no problems in the %post section. I 
> downloaded their jdk.bin file, extracted the rpm from it(which is 
> interactive), and then stored it on my nfs server where the post 
> section install the rpm (non-interactively).

Or you can just copy the extracted RPM to the place where all the other 
RH-RPMs are (FTP or HTTP-Server in my case) and generate a new hdlist 
with genhdlist - this way you can put j2sdk1.4.1 (or whatever the 
package is called...) in the packages-section and it gets installed... 
there is no interaction required, when doing it this way. An advantage 
is that you can install packages, that require java, and you get no 
problems with dependencies or stuff like that - so for me this is the 
cleanest solution and your post-section is a bit smaller again :-)

cheers,
Andreas