RPM dependency hell

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Nov 21 00:24:38 UTC 2006


James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am attempting to install the JRE 1.5 rpm and I am getting multiple failed
> dependencies. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Thank you.

I haven't used Sun's rpm in a long time, but it looks like it's trying 
to replace gcj without "providing" all of the same facilities.  If I 
were you, I'd just get the tarball, and unpack in in /opt.  Either that, 
or use the packages from http://www.jpackage.org/ rather than Sun's.




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