JPackage

[Jim Higson]

On Thursday 18 Nov 2004 08:59, you wrote:
> I saw this in fedora mailing list.
>
> > On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 20:41, Scott wrote:
> > > I've got to install j2sel.5-sun-devel-1.5.0-alt2.i586.rpm on  Fedora
> >
> > Core 2
> >
> > > Final.  However when I do: rpm -iv j2sel.5-sun-devel-1.5.0-
> >
> > alt2.i586.rpm  I
> >
> > > get:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > >
> > > j2sel.5-sun = 1.5.0-alt2 is needed by j2sel.5-sun-devel-1.5.0-alt2
> > >
> > > alternatives >= 0.2.0 is needed by j2sel.5-sun-devel-1.5.0-alt2
> > >
> > > /etc/alternatives/packages.d is needed by j2sel.5-sun-devel-1.5.0-
> >
> > alt2
> >
> > > java-common is needed by j2sel.5-sun-devel-1.5.0-alt2
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea what I need to do?
> >
> > Are you using JPackage? I find it's a much better way to integrate
> > Java with
> > Linux than the packages Sun provides.
>
> Does JPackage provide swing,applet. Is it same(functionally) as the one
> sun provides. Is the same functions used here. Why I ask this is b'cos i
> am learning Java & intend to learn J2EE. Could u tell me the size of
> this package.
>
> Thank you,
>
> with regards,
> ashwin

Yes, they have everything the equivalent from Sun have - for non-free stuff 
like Java they just distribute the tools needed to create your own rpms. They 
don't have J2EE 1.4 ready yet, but the SJSAS binary installer from Sun 
installs fine over J2SE from jpackage.

You can also use yum or apt with them, so you can do things like:

# apt-get install jboss

Which is by far the easiest way to get new java software on your system.

Jim