Finding Installed Packages

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Ali Helmy wrote:

> Well, what I'm doing is:
>
> I'm going to leave the packages installed as they are, and I am currently
> Downloading the Java SDK5.0 from Sun's official site... It's a massive 131MB
> download, and in .bin format, so I really hope it gets registered with rpm's
> db for updates...

It doesn't if you just use the built-in installer.

Grab the Sun .bin package, then get the jpackage.org nosource RPM and 
follow the instructions for building a FC-compatible set of RPMs from the 
.bin.

>
> keep you lads posted
>
> On 25/03/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Ali Helmy wrote:
>>
>>> Hey mates, talking to you from FC5 :D
>>>
>>> Anyways, I noticed after compiling a .jar, that FC5 came with the "Free
>>> Source Foundation" of the jdk and jvm... however, I'd like to remove
>> these,
>>> and to install the Sun JDK & JVM...
>>>
>>> So, any ideas how i can know which packages to un-install using yum? i
>> mean
>>> what command do i type to list all java related rpms?
>>
>> You could "rpm -qa | grep java", or you could use the GUI software
>> installer (under the Applications menu), or you could just leave them
>> there and build and install the JPackage Sun rpms (jpackage.org) and use
>> the alternatives system to select which one to use.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> A. Helmy
>>>
>>
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>>                 Matthew Saltzman
>>
>> Clemson University Math Sciences
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>
>
>
> --
> A. Helmy
>

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