Question about Java on Fedora 4

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 12/11/05, Hoffmann <oasf2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  (1) Could anyone, please, let me know how could I upgrade java to the
> latest version? Is the best option to wait for the newest version be
> released by yum?
>
>  (2) The most impottant question: What about the Java Virtual Machine? I
> realized that some applications I would like to install/run are generating a
> warning about not being able to find the JVM on my machine? How could I
> solve this problem? Is it already installed? If affirmative, how could I
> make JVM be recognized by those applications?

I'd recommend the J2SE from here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp (Java on Linux isn't quite
up to par, IMO).  I use the non-RPM bundle of netbeans and the J2SE
and install it in /opt.  You can update your path appropriately for
your Java applications to work.

--
Chris

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