[CentOS] Java headaches
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jan 30 13:08:01 UTC 2007
Well, almost there...
Black Hand wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
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>> Installing Freemind. It needs Java JRE.
>> So after lots of pain, and reading past messages, I got
>> jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.rpm from sun and installed it.
>> Then I tried to follow Jim Perrin's recommendation to install from
>> jpackage.org the java-1.5.0-sum-compat.rpm. Thing is it is complaining
>> about no JDK (not JRE!)
>>
>> yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat (have jpackage.org repo in yum.repo.d)
>>
> .... <snip> .....
>
>> OK. What is broken here?
>>
>
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat works ONLY with the jdk, not the jre
>
> i sugest to u to install the jdk, the jre is a subset of the full jdk, if your
> app need jre, then can work with the jdk too.
OK. I removed jre and installed jdk. This allowed me to install the
java-sun-compat from jpackage.org, but now....
java -version
gets command not found. I THINK in part this might be due to the
Alternatives commands I entered? I HAVE NOT been able to trace through
all the links. It seems to be a mess!
And of course, although I finally got freemind installed (all sorts of
things needed from jpackage for that), it won't run without finding java.
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