Sun's JRE is broken on Fedora 8

[Andrew Parker]

On Nov 18, 2007 7:32 AM, Christopher A. Williams <fedoralists at cawllc.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 11:10 +0100, Milos Jakubicek wrote:
> > > That shouldn't surprise anyone who actually tried it -- I'm just
> > > surprised that I don't remember anyone mention this yet.
> >
> > Look at this for a workaround if you need Sun's Java:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254144
> >
> > It is also mentioned on:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common
> >
>
> Unfortunately, none of this has helped me work around the problem with
> Lotus Notes 8.0. AS mentioned in the bugzilla comments, it is another
> retail package that includes its own JVM. I can't seem to find how it's
> packed to try and apply the sed patch to it.
>
> I'm having to run Notes for Windows in a VM for now because I need the
> application for work. Anyone else had any luck with this part? I've
> tried about a bazillion different things suggested here and elsewhere
> and have had absolutely no luck at all...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>

If you have it installed on your VM, can you copy the installation
over to F8 and patch it?  Some applications copy easily (e.g. Google
Earth can just copy the installation directory over), some can be a
little entertaining to copy over (Crossover for example has menu items
to set up).  If its not obvious what to copy, then create a new user
on your VM, so you have a pretty much empty directory) and install as
that user.  Everything the installation does must be in that user's
directory.