something's uninstalling the sun jre, again

Anthony Green green at redhat.com
Thu Dec 22 22:14:37 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 16:18 +0100, Marcus Hartig wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > Fedora Core Whatever users should use either the RPM from jpackage.org
> > or manually install the Sun Java tarball into /opt. Sun Java 1.5+ is
> > recommended for stability purposes.
> 
> Oh yes, thanks...I go this way with /opt, now.

This is actually bogus advice that we'll be fixing in the release notes.
We highly recommend _not_ installing Sun's tarball into /opt or anywhere
else.  Sun's raw RPMs are also bad news.

See the following for how to do it right...
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4

AG





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