[CentOS] Java headaches
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jan 30 15:47:33 UTC 2007
Probably solved well enough,,,
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Well, almost there...
>
> Black Hand wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 January 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
I just deleted the broken link to java in /etc/alternatives, and made a
new one. Now Freemind is running.
I still have to see about getting java plugged into Firefox, I think.
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