Installing JAVA

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 12/26/05, Eric Tanguy <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
>
> yes but the last available jdk package from sun is update 6 and the last
> available rpm from jpackage is for update 5 ...

This is easy enough to work around.

1. rpm -Uvh java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.05-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
2. cd ~rpmbuild/SPECS
3. vi java-1.5.0-sun.spec
4. Set the %define buildver to 06 from 05
5. rpmbuild -bb java-1.5.0-sun.spec

The rest of what you do you can figure out from the document at Fedora News.

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Chris

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