[fedora-java] Fedora Core package list

[Gary Benson]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:03 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Well, the main packages are Tomcat and Eclipse.  I can't speak for
> > the Eclipse guys, but to try out Tomcat you'd probably do
> > something like:
> > 
> >  1. Install a FC4tX box.
> >  2. yum install tomcat5 tomcat5-webapps tomcat5-admin-webapps
> >  3. service tomcat5 start
> >  4. Look at http://localhost:8080/
> > 
> > Assuming they know their way around Tomcat all they need to know
> > to configure it is that CATALINA_HOME is /usr/share/tomcat5.
> > 
> > Is that the kind of thing they're after?
> 
> Yes, that is great. Do you have a pointer for more specific
> instructions for point 1? (Debian user speaking here [sorry], I
> don't actually know what FC4tX is or where I would download it.)

Ha, me neither, I just grab the rpms straight from our build system ;)
Erm, http://fedora.redhat.com/download/test.html seems to cover it.

> > > Their mailinglist is harmony-dev at incubator.apache.org
> > 
> > I'm going to be on holiday in five hours time, and I won't be back
> > til May 23rd, so I don't want to start a thread there that I won't
> > be able to respond to properly.  Would you mind mailing them what
> > I just wrote (assuming it's what you were after)?
> 
> It would probably be better if someone more familiar with Fedora
> could do the write up. If nobody else volunteers I can do a summary
> of this thread. But don't blame me if it will sound like "well, it
> isn't Debian, and the install is ackward, but..." :)

It's too late for me to do it now (sunny beaches are calling) but
hopefully someone else will...

Cheers,
Gary