JDK confusion
rwhart at mchsi.com
rwhart at mchsi.com
Mon Jan 9 15:48:32 UTC 2006
Thanks guys,
First, I downloaded the sun rpm, and it installed in /usr/java/jdk....
I had downloaded all the packages from jpackage and built the rpms but I do
not want to deal with that every time ( I am a physician not a programmer and
am very new to Java.)
The one question I do not yet have the answer to is what does xxxx.compat
stand for when I see a package with this name listed on jpackage.org?
I will probably go the route of the tar.gz and place them in /usr
or /usr/local with appropriate sym links.
Thanks again,
Bob
> On 1/9/06, Jim Cox <shakahshakah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The tar.gz route is about as easy as it gets, and lets you keep
> > multiple versions of the JDK on the box. I just expand install under
> > /usr (e.g. /usr/jdk1.5.0_01) and symlink the /usr/java directory along
> > with the main executables (/usr/bin/java, /usr/bin/javac, etc.).
>
> The default installation path for the Sun provided package is /opt
> (specifically /opt/jdk1.5.0_06 and /opt/netbeans-1.4). To smoothly
> handle this naming convention, I'd suggest creating appropriate
> symlinks named /opt/java and /opt/netbeans and then simply putting
> those in your path (/opt/java/bin and /opt/netbeans/bin). This is how
> Sun handles it on Solaris systems (using /usr/java).
>
> You can go the jpackage route if you like. I don't simply because I
> don't want to mess with maintaining a java package on my machine no
> matter how easy someone has made it for me.
>
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