Totem=noshow
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Dec 4 16:14:56 UTC 2006
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 09:53, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> I'd just download the one RPM from the Web site. I don't think there
>> are any dependencies to worry about and you are rebuilding the binary
>> RPM anyway.
>
> That 'one' rpm, can you name it so I might be able to find it with a
> google search?
Already told you how to find it in a previous post.
>
> Browsing the instructions on that site it says I *must* have
> jpackage-utils but thats not available either in browsing the site, nor
> to yumex. Presumably because there are no fc5 or fc6 versions in the
> mirrorlist site.
FC6 includes a jpackage-utils to support the derivatives mentioned below.
>
> Humm, would you believe that unpacking the 1.5.0.10.bin actually installed
> it in /usr/java! And OpenOffice found it and is apparently happy with
> it. Now to hunt down the old ff install and see how I'd setup the links
> to make it work for fc2, and dup them. There is after all, a ready
> supply of cats to skin. :-)
>
>
>> There are some jpackage derivatives in FC, so last I read (in FC5),
>> adding jpackage as a repo and running updates was "considered harmful"
>> unless you wanted to go all jpackage for those RPMs.
>
> Hummm... Thanks for the warning.
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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