Finding Installed Packages

[Ali Helmy]

Well, what I'm doing is:

I'm going to leave the packages installed as they are, and I am currently
Downloading the Java SDK5.0 from Sun's official site... It's a massive 131MB
download, and in .bin format, so I really hope it gets registered with rpm's
db for updates...

keep you lads posted

On 25/03/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Ali Helmy wrote:
>
> > Hey mates, talking to you from FC5 :D
> >
> > Anyways, I noticed after compiling a .jar, that FC5 came with the "Free
> > Source Foundation" of the jdk and jvm... however, I'd like to remove
> these,
> > and to install the Sun JDK & JVM...
> >
> > So, any ideas how i can know which packages to un-install using yum? i
> mean
> > what command do i type to list all java related rpms?
>
> You could "rpm -qa | grep java", or you could use the GUI software
> installer (under the Applications menu), or you could just leave them
> there and build and install the JPackage Sun rpms (jpackage.org) and use
> the alternatives system to select which one to use.
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > A. Helmy
> >
>
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