<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; ">I've read website <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/<wbr>JavaOnCentOS</a>. I am a total newbie with CentOS, but currently, with update 21 of the Java 6 JDK and CentOS 5.5, the installing the JDK appears to be simpler:<br><br>1. Download the latest *rpm.bin jdk (as of today,jdk-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.<wbr>bin) from<a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://java.sun.com/javase/<wbr>downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp</a><br><div><div>2. chmod +x the downloaded file.<br>3. su<br>4. Execute the file.<br><br>The main advantage
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