Sun's JRE is broken on Fedora 8

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 08:10 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:

> > > 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, copying over a Notes for Windows install into a Linux
> > environment won't work. The Windows and Linux versions share Java and
> > Eclipse code, but that's about it. I also just read in the Notes support
> > forums that the installer unpacks two seperate and distinct JREs!
> >
> > It gets even better - Notes 8.0 is impressively messy in where it wants
> > to install files. Not everything goes in a user's directory. It's quite
> > a messy application. The again, the only reason why I use it is because
> > my company uses it as their mail application (and some of them think its
> > great... I'll withhold further comment).
> 
> Sorry, missed the bit where you said the VM was windows.  Can you set
> up a Fedora 7 VM?

Hadn't thought of trying that - I could set up a F7 VM just for this and
try it out. Perhaps this afternoon...


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