Java and/or Jpackage on AMD64-FC3
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Thu Dec 16 01:55:11 UTC 2004
On 12/15/2004 11:21:49 AM, Mercury Morris wrote:
> I followed the article from the following link
>
> http://mpeters.us/linux/j2sdk.php
>
> and successfully got Java working on a 32-bit FC3 machine.
>
> The success inspired me to try to get Java working on an AMD64-FC3
> machine. So I went back to the above article, this time starting
> with the "1.5.0 version of the J2SDK", as the article advises.
>
> I downloaded jdk-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin and
> jre-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin. Also retrieved
> jpackage.asc and jpackage.repo, installed both.
> After using yum to install jpackage-utils, I got
> confused. The article continues, saying to get
> Sun's j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586-rpm.bin,
> but the top of the article says to use 1.5.0.
>
> So, I looked around Sun's website and found a
> path to 1.5.0 and downloaded jdk-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin.
> Anticipating success at the end of all these steps, I next
> used yum to install jedit, leaving as the last step,
>
> yum install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
>
That's for 32-bit.
I do not know if JPackage has a java-sun-compat for 1.5 SDK.
It doesn't look like it.
You could try this:
http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=1291
I don't know for sure that will work with the amd64 j2sdk
You may have to modify the spec file, and maybe do some other things.
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