Install 32 and 64-bit Sun JDKs On Fedora 10 x86_64

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Feb 13 05:57:03 UTC 2009


Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I want to install both the 32 and 64-bit Sun JDKs on my Fedora 10 x86_64
> laptop. Is there any way to do this? I already have the 64-bit JDK
> installed and the Java "alternatives" configured. I get the impression
> that if I use the Sun rpms they will both install by default to
> /usr/java/jdk[version_update] so that installing the 32-bit JDK will
> overwrite the 64 bit JDK, which I don't think I want. If I could get the
> Sun installer process to install to a separate directory within
> /usr/java, that would probably work.
>
>   
I've not done this....but I wonder if installing via rpm with the
--prefix parameter will do what you need.  Or, as another idea, run rpm
in a chroot environment? 

Wonder if they would really work OK or have problems with library
resolution....



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