Finding Installed Packages

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 14:09, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>>> 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...
>>
>> It doesn't if you just use the built-in installer.
>>
>> Grab the Sun .bin package, then get the jpackage.org nosource RPM and
>> follow the instructions for building a FC-compatible set of RPMs from the
>> .bin.
>
> Do you have a link to the specific instructions you mean?  I always
> get lost in the vast quantity of different versions on jpackage.org.

http://www.jpackage.org/rebuilding.php

The FC5 way to do the initial setup step is to install fedora-rpmdevtools, 
then run fedora-buildrpmtree as the user doing the building.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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