[Spacewalk-list] java missing on install

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:46:18PM -0700, Mike McCune wrote:
>>
>> I am missing java and java-devel, but I do not find these rpms in rhn.   Does anyone know where to get the best version of both for RHEL 5.2 x86?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>> yum install spacewalk
>> .....
>> Error: Missing Dependency: java >= 1.5.0 is needed by package bouncycastle-jdk1.5
>> Error: Missing Dependency: java-devel >= 1.5.0 is needed by package taskomatic-sat
>> Error: Missing Dependency: java >= 1.5.0 is needed by package taskomatic-sat
>> Error: Missing Dependency: java-devel >= 1.5.0 is needed by package rhn-java-sat
>> Error: Missing Dependency: java >= 1.5.0 is needed by package rhn-java-sat
>>
>> [root at zenhost oracle]# rpm -qa |grep oracle
>> oracle-instantclient-devel-10.2.0.4-1
>> oracle-instantclient-jdbc-10.2.0.4-1
>> oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0
>> oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.4-1
>> oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4-1
>
> EPEL:
>
> From our wiki:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
>
> EPEL Repo setup ¶
>
> Spacewalk requires a Java Virtual Machine with version 1.6.0 or greater.  
> EPEL - Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux contains a version of the  
> openjdk that works with Spacewalk. To get packages from EPEL just  
> install this RPM:
>
> rpm -Uvh  
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm

I'd like to also add, that you won't find "java" package. There are
many javas around, so what will get installed is package named
something like "java-1.6.0-openjdk", providing "java".

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat