Loading Java SDK or Fedora fc7

[BJ Freeman]

been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm
by fedora 7
if some has had experience would appreciated input.
otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution.

[Walter Vaughan]

BJ Freeman wrote:

> been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm
> by fedora 7
> if some has had experience would appreciated input.
> otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution.

I've lost too many hours dealing with .rpms to ever really want to revisit
Fedora Core.
While I have been a fan of FreeBSD for years, I'm really impressed with Ubuntu.
I've been testing it on a Dual Quad core box with 8 gig of memory running AMD64
version.
Nice and fast, and installing everything "just works".

[Jacques Le Roux]

I like it too

Jacques

De : "Walter Vaughan" <[hidden email]>

> BJ Freeman wrote:
>
> > been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm
> > by fedora 7
> > if some has had experience would appreciated input.
> > otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution.
>
> I've lost too many hours dealing with .rpms to ever really want to revisit
> Fedora Core.
> While I have been a fan of FreeBSD for years, I'm really impressed with Ubuntu.
> I've been testing it on a Dual Quad core box with 8 gig of memory running AMD64
> version.
> Nice and fast, and installing everything "just works".

[Shi Jinghai]

> BJ Freeman wrote:
>
> > been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm
> > by fedora 7
> > if some has had experience would appreciated input.
> > otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution.
I'm using Fedora 6, because its localization is much better than other
distributions, and the look is professional.

Here are the steps you could try:
1. download jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin from
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Please don't
download other files than this bin.

2. chmod 0755 jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin

3. ./jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin
now you can find the jdk files in /usr/java/jdk-1_5_0_12

4. yum install jpackage-utils

5. wget
ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.7/generic/RPMS.non-free/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.12-1jpp.i586.rpm

6. rpm -ivh java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.12-1jpp.i586.rpm

7. alternatives --config java
select the jdk you just installed.

That's all. Good luck!

Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd.

[BJ Freeman]

thanks for your reply.
was hoping someone had loaded the 1.4.2.14 of the jdk
already have 1.5 on the machine.


Shi Jinghai sent the following on 6/27/2007 10:49 PM:

>> BJ Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm
>>> by fedora 7
>>> if some has had experience would appreciated input.
>>> otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution.
> I'm using Fedora 6, because its localization is much better than other
> distributions, and the look is professional.
>
> Here are the steps you could try:
> 1. download jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin from
> http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Please don't
> download other files than this bin.
>
> 2. chmod 0755 jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin
>
> 3. ./jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> now you can find the jdk files in /usr/java/jdk-1_5_0_12
>
> 4. yum install jpackage-utils
>
> 5. wget
> ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.7/generic/RPMS.non-free/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.12-1jpp.i586.rpm
>
> 6. rpm -ivh java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.12-1jpp.i586.rpm
>
> 7. alternatives --config java
> select the jdk you just installed.
>
> That's all. Good luck!
>
> Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd.
>
>
>
>
>

[BJ Freeman]

thanks walter.
I have a hosted linux and fedora is the only choice.
sigh

Walter Vaughan sent the following on 6/27/2007 1:00 PM:

> BJ Freeman wrote:
>
>> been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm
>> by fedora 7
>> if some has had experience would appreciated input.
>> otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution.
>
> I've lost too many hours dealing with .rpms to ever really want to
> revisit Fedora Core.
> While I have been a fan of FreeBSD for years, I'm really impressed with
> Ubuntu.
> I've been testing it on a Dual Quad core box with 8 gig of memory
> running AMD64 version.
> Nice and fast, and installing everything "just works".
>
>
>