Install java with yum
Alexander Dalloz
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Wed Dec 28 02:19:17 UTC 2005
Am Mi, den 28.12.2005 schrieb Bob Hartung um 2:49:
> I have my FC4 system cleaned up. I have removed all of the "java"
> group that is installed with anaconda because it was just too confusing
> figuring out all the inter-connectedness [? a real word] of the parts of
> java, jakarta, for this newbie.
>
> I would like to install the sun version of java-1.5.0 with yum and
> have downloaded the jpackage.repo package (from jpackage.org), commented
> out all the sections except the last ' [jpackage-generic-non-free], and
> tried to do the following:
> yum --enablerepos=jpackage* install java-1.5.0
That will not work. Simply because Java can't be provided that way due
to Sun's license.
> It returns with nothing to install. There is no java installed at
> present except for
> gcc-java-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0....
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0....
> which as i understand it are compatibility files(?) for 1.4.2.
>
> My goal is to install a minimal java SDK to:
> 1. run with tomcat4
> 2. experiment and learn a little about java in general.
You touch a FAQ:
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4
That nice article by Paul holds (nearly) all information you need.
> Bob
Alexander
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