FC4 and Java...

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:19, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, bruce wrote:
> > hi..
> >
> > Can someone please tell me whay it's apparently difficult to install java
> > sdk on FC4...
>
> Sun's licensing terms preclude distribution by third parties.
>
> > it appears that i have to do ...
> > http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4
> >
> > or, is there a rpm package that i can get my hands on...
>
> That *is* the RPM package.  It's just that you have to build it yourself.
>
> The JPackage RPMs are designed to integrate properly with Fedora.  The Sun
> RPMs are broken.  The Sun .bin distribution doesn't integrate at all.  If
> all you want is the browser plugin, it doesn't matter much, but if you are
> doing anything more sophisticated than that, you definitely want to follow
> the JPackage Way.
>
> It looks scary at first, but it's really not that hard...
>
Matthew, I've been trying to get Azureus working, and it looks like java 
problems, so I tried to follow this.  Version numbers have moved on, but I 
got the Sun package.  I hit problems with finding the jpackage, though.  I 
got as far as http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/non-free/ but I 
can't find any package that looks to be right.  Could you take a look and 
re-direct me, please?

Anne
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