FC4 and Java...

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, bruce wrote:

> hi..
>
> Can someone please tell me whay it's apparently difficult to install java
> sdk on FC4...

Sun's licensing terms preclude distribution by third parties.

>
> it appears that i have to do ...
> http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4
>
> or, is there a rpm package that i can get my hands on...

That *is* the RPM package.  It's just that you have to build it yourself.

The JPackage RPMs are designed to integrate properly with Fedora.  The Sun 
RPMs are broken.  The Sun .bin distribution doesn't integrate at all.  If 
all you want is the browser plugin, it doesn't matter much, but if you are 
doing anything more sophisticated than that, you definitely want to follow 
the JPackage Way.

It looks scary at first, but it's really not that hard...

>
> -bruce
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