Sun Java on F8 - Improved instructions

Amadeus W.M. amadeus84 at verizon.net
Mon Jan 7 04:27:24 UTC 2008


On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:25:15 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:

> I went back to F8 i386 yesterday because I need to be able to use Sun's
> Java plugin with Firefox.  In the process I found out a couple of
> interesting things.
> 
> 1)  The XINERAMA bug is indeed fixed with version 1.0-4 of libxcb
> 
> 2)  You can configure the Sun Java plugin to work with alternatives just
> like java and javac
> 
> I've updated my instruction page to reflect this.  I also moved this
> file although the old address will still work.
> 
> http://rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com/sun-java-on-F8.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Knute Johnson
> Molon Labe...


I'm getting some errors trying to install java sun-compat:

[root at phoenix ~]# rpm -q jre
jre-1.6.0_03-fcs

[root at phoenix ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i jpackage
jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.3.fc8

[root at phoenix ~]# rpm -Uvh java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm 
warning: java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA 
signature: NOKEY, key ID c431416d
error: Failed dependencies:
        jdk = 2000:1.6.0_03-fcs is needed by java-1.6.0-sun 
compat-1.6.0.03-1jpp.i586

[root at phoenix ~]# yum list | grep -i jdk
jdk.i586                                 2000:1.6.0-fcs       installed       
ldapjdk.i386                             4.17-1jpp.7           fedora          
ldapjdk-javadoc.i386                     4.17-1jpp.7           fedora          
[root at phoenix ~]# 


I can't find jdk 1.6.0.3. So I uninstalled sun's jre, installed sun's jdk and 
installation worked. 

Still, I can't view cnn video. If I remember correctly,
cnn video used to be stored temporarily as /tmp/FlashXYZ. Doesn't seem to
be the case anymore?

Also, for my curiosity, the installation instructions (which I used in the
past) from sun don't mention anything about jpackage and sun-compat. 
Are these packages really necessary (for sun's jre), and if so, why? 








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