failed to install java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.06-1jpp.i586.rpm

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:07 +0300, Kazimieras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The
> rpm -ivh
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/jpackage.org/1.6/generic/non-free/RPMS/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.06-1jpp.i586.rpm
> 
> fails with:
> error: unpacking of archive failed on
> file /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/jre/lib/i386: cpio: rename
> failed - Is a directory
> 
> Did anyone get similar error ?


I used these steps to install java and it works great.  I used the
bundled package from Sun that includes Netbeans 5.0 as well.  Not a bad
IDE.

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html#Java

This worked for both FC4 and FC5.