On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 18:09 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
The wiki has a long procedure for installing Sun JDK 1.6 but not JRE. What's the benefit to installing the JDK this way (repackaging it)?
This is described to some extent in the wiki. My understanding is that the jdk is the development environment which includes the JRE. Some applications do not work unless particular versions of java are installed in particular ways. The method which uses "alternatives" allows you to manage symbolic links and change between different installed version of rpm packages and also to use "system-switch-java" to simultaneously change the web browser plugins, the jre and the commandline java (each can be changed seperately with the alternatives command).
The package rebuilding process rebuilds the package so it installs in a different location which is pointed to by the symbolic links when that version is selected.
Nataraj
Thanks! jlc
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