DAG Repos

[jim lawrence]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:33:39 -0500, Mark Haney <markh at uptimecomputer.net> wrote:
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:22 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: DAG Repos
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> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Mark Haney wrote:
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> > Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:21 +0100, Ted Wager wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just installed f/c 3 then fetched and installed apt and synaptic.
> >>> Could someone let me know the repo address of the dag site so I can
> >>> easily install the java jre stuff...
> >>
> >>
> >> See: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
> >>
> >> Paul.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the info
> >   Just got the j2re from dag's site using synaptic but when I test it
> > out on a java site firefox crashes completely....Wonder if anyone else
> 
> > has this problem ??
> >
> > Yep.  I get it as well.  I was experiencing a similar issue with Sun's
> 
> > RPM for 1.5.0 or whatever the latest was.  Firefox refused to open
> > with the 1.5.0 plugin symlinked.  When I got the 1.4.2 from he DAG
> > repo, I got Firefox to open to my homepage (Slashdot) but going to a
> > site with Java (Noggin.com) Firefox dies very badly.  It seems I
> > cannot get any Java plugin to work with Firefox now.
> 
> The best source for Java for FC is jpackage.org.  A bit of a learning
> curve, but it generally works much better than the Sun RPMs.
> 
> Does the jpackage version work with Firefox in FC3?
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the latest version of java  is 1.5.0_02 from suns site 
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49596

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Jim Lawrence
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