Java and/or Jpackage on AMD64-FC3

[Michael A. Peters]

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.