JRE required - OpenOffice 2 (beta)

[Jim Cornette]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cornette" 
> <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:00 PM
> Subject: JRE required - OpenOffice 2 (beta)
> 
> 
>> I installed openoffice rpms from the openoffic.org site. The rpms
>> contain a program called base. This program requires JRE.
>>
>> Anyway, I'd like to experiment with this program. I have not ever
>> installed Java on my linux computer before.
>>
>> What runtime package is needed and how would you compile and install it
>> to work with OpenOffice.org? I tried to compile a nosrc package and did
>> not have much success with my attempts.
>> (java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.01-1jpp.nosrc.rpm). Is this the correct package
>> required?
>>
>> Any leads appreciated.
>>
>> Jim
> 
> 
> http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
> 
> Get the Linux RPM (self-extracting file) and run it (sh 
> jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin).  You'll have to deal with the license 
> agreement claptrap and then you'll end up with a Java RPM called 
> jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.rpm
> 
> rpm -ivh that package and you're done.  No need to compile anything.
> 
> Thomas

Thanks! The package installed slowly, but successfully. Now to figure 
out how to get Openoffice 2 to use this JRE.

Jim