[CentOS] JPackage, Java 1.5.0, and CentOS 5?

[Francois Caen]

On 4/20/07, Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr> wrote:
> I have downloaded and installed JDK 1.5.0_11 by downloading and running
> it from SUN's site. No needs for any HOWTOs, except for how to create a
> link to mozilla/plugins available on SUN's site, so as to use the jre
> from firefox.

The problem with doing it the way you did is, you forgot you were
using an RPM-based distribution. Now rpm doesn't know about your java.
And when your java needs to be updated to patch something, rpm won't
be there for you.

Don't get me wrong, I've done it the lazy way too. But it's not the Right Way.

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Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA
SpiderMaker, LLC