What to install on an amd64 machine?

[Eric Mittelstaedt]

Brian,

What kind of problems are you having 'installing' java?  It is a very 
easy install...  Also if you need to use both 32bit and 64bit JVMs, is 
it a big problem to have a 32bit and 64bit JVM installed, and reference 
the appropriate one via your JAVA_HOME definition?

Also, have you tried Blackdown?
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/JDK-1.4.2/amd64/fcs/

Eric

Brian Chase wrote:

> One issue not yet mentioned in this thread is Java.  Java is painful 
> to install, and instructions on the Java website are poor at best, 
> confusing, switching between 32 bit instructions and 64-bit instructions.
>
> Right now, I don't have Java installed.  I need a script that will 
> take care of it all for me or just have it pre-installed out of the 
> box.  When will this happen?  I don't have time for this crapola.  It 
> needs to just work!  Sure, I understand that licensing issues may 
> prohibit inclusion of Java in Linux, but why then is it free?  Can't 
> we all just put our heads together, throw the lawyers out of the room 
> for an hour and fix this once and for all?
>
> Flash for x86-64 is non-existent.
>
> I haven't tried to replace my yum.conf file with the livna one, mainly 
> because I'm afraid to get a bunch of unwanted 32 bit apps, another 
> source of confusion.  Would be nice if all the good apps you could get 
> off of livna could just be included in the official repositories.  I 
> feel much of this "unofficial" business with some of the Fedora 
> support pages is just justified paranoia of our sue-happy culture we 
> have here in the USA.....Descending from my soap box....
>
> Happy New Year to all!
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> Alexander Volovics wrote:
>
>> In 2 weeks time I will be getting an amd64 machine and I have
>> been reading up on possible problems.
>> Because the answers to the questions I would like answered are
>> contaminated with hardware/software issues when googling or reading
>> mailing lists I hope to get some unequivocal answers here.
>>
>> - Can you install FC3-i386 on an amd64 machine without problems?
>>  Can the FC3-i386 kernel and drivers handel the hardware without
>>  problems?
>>
>> - Looking at the packages contained in FC3-x86_64 I see both i386
>>  and x86_64 versions for a lot of things. For example:
>>  hal-0.4.0-10.i386.rpm and hal-0.4.0-10.x86_64.rpm.
>>  Are the i386 versions included for 'compat' reasons, so you can
>>  run i386 apps under FC3-x86_64?
>>  And are they installed by default when doing a standard workstation
>>  install or do you add them if necessary?
>>  If they are available for 'compat' reasons are they sufficient for
>>  all i386 apps I would like to run or do you sometimes have to add
>>  extra i386 libraries?
>>  Can i386 libraries always coexist with x86_64 libraries without
>>  problems?
>>
>> - Do up2date/yum function faultlessly when adding i386 apps to
>>  a machine running FC3-x86_64.
>>
>> - If both FC3-i386 and FC3-x86_64 can run on an amd64 machine without
>>  problems are there significant advantages for the x86_64 version?
>>
>> - I will be getting a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board with an Athlon64
>>  3500+ socket 399 and an UDMA100 hard drive. Does anybody know of
>>  any special problems when installing either FC3-i386 or FC3-x86_64?
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>>  
>>
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