Java problem

[Karl Larsen]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>>     You guys are both wrong. Fedora does ship F7 and F8 with a small
>>>> java version 1.5 which is too old for newer java programs,
    I screwed up here. Version 1.5 is not very old. But for some reason 
the java 1.5 on F8 doesn't support installing jedit.

    The jre-1.5.0-gcj is what we have built in on F8. It is small in 
byte size compared to the downloaded jre-6u3-linux-i586.rpm.

    The later rpm seems to put up a local file system in the  /usr/java/ 
directory that is used if you call java from the /bin directory there. 
It is just much more capable of supporting java software.

Karl



>>>>  and that
>>>> broken icedtea that does nothing good. But light at the end of the
>>>> tunnel. Fedora can make the necessary changes to their design to
>>>> allow the method given on the Sun Site to work. I have been doing
>>>> the work. Look at my new messages on java.
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> nice of you to weigh in on something you know absolutely nothing about.
>>>       
>> On the contrary - he has given the definitive 'user experience' of
>> java on fedora.  He knows exactly what that experience is.  You may be
>> right that it shouldn't be that way...
>>
>>     
> Ah, yes...now I understand.  1+1=2 except in cases where it does not
> actually equal 1 but may = something less or more than 1 if it happens
> to be the 3rd Sunday in a month that has a even numbered Thursday.
>
>
>   


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