Help installing Java

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:05 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 16:48 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Look out for the 3rd Issue of Fedora Weekly News at FedoraNews.org,
> > which will include a step-by-step guide to building and installing the
> > JPackage java RPM.
> > 
> > The FC4 release notes specifically advise against installing the Sun
> > java RPM by the way.
> 
> Found it. Thanks. When I try to remove the old one which I'd like to do
> before installing the new one I get an error when doing an rpm -e that
> the package is not installed and with yum it says not packages marked
> for removal. What is the best way to remove it? There is no uninstall. 

try:
# rpm -e `rpm
-qf /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so`

(that's all one line)

That should identofy the right rpm to remove.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>