[fedora-java] recommendations for coexistence with Sun-jre

Thomas Fitzsimmons fitzsim at redhat.com
Fri Jun 17 16:12:18 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:54 -0400, Zlatin Balevsky wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've been receiving many reports that applications that depend on Sun 
> (such as LimeWire which I work for) java break on FC4.  I can't advise 
> people to get rid of the -compat package because openoffice.org-core 
> depends on it. 
> 
> Is there an officially supported/recommended way of having Sun java 
> coexist with the -compat?

Yes, we recommend creating a Sun JPackage RPM, then installing that.
All the java tools in /usr/bin will then point to Sun's Java
implementation.

Tom

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Zlatin Balevsky
> Lime Wire LLC
> 
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