Java problem

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 02:30:09 UTC 2007


Cameron Simpson wrote:

>>>> Hi
>>>> I installed the jre from the file jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin and it
>>>> give me done with no prob , but there is no java file in /usr/bin/ ,
>>>> can any one suggest some thing about that ? 
>>> ----
>>> look in /usr/java
>>>
>>> if you know what you want, you can create a symbolic link in /usr/bin
>>> but that should never be necessary.
>> It's too bad that RedHat and Sun can't agree on where java should live.   
> 
> It's a third party RPM!
> Of course it should install out of the way!
> That way you can use Sun's RPM or another RPM, or both!
> 
>> For earlier versions of fedora, jpackage.org had a way to fix this 
>> breakage, but they seem to have stopped at FC6.
> 
> Maybe there should be something in /etc/alternatives...

Or maybe no one should have ever shipped an imitation java that doesn't 
meet the spec and called it java in the first place.

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   Les Mikesell
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