R P Herrold wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Clint Dilks wrote:

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I have been following the instructions here http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS but trying to modify them for jdk-6u7-linux-amd64.rpm but there doesn't see to be a compatible java-1.6.0-sun-compat-*.rpm. Does one exist ?

What's wrong with the java-1.4.2-gcj-compat? Thttp://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOShere is no dependency impediment of which I am aware.

My installation is maintained with the first part narrative ('A simple approach') at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS http://www.trading-shim.org/faq/?java

I'll try a bump to U7 from Sun and see how it goes: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Java SE Development Kit 6u7 jdk-6u7-linux-x64-rpm.bin

and note any changes after the sig; hold on ... back ... no -- I see no Dependency or Requres" problem using java-1.4.2-gcj-compat with jdk-1.6.0_07-fcs

A side note: To Sun's credit, the adoption of the 'latest' link simmplifies matters, and I need to update my writeup's a bit ...

[herrold@centos-5 java]$ pwd ; ls -l /usr/java total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 10 13:17 default -> /usr/java/latest drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 10 13:18 jdk1.6.0_07 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jul 10 13:18 latest -> /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_07 [herrold@centos-5 java]$

On a related side note, I see the following is still in the U7 License Agreement, which has been an impediment to CentOS inclusion of Sun's Java in the past:

(viii) You shall indemnify Sun for all damages arising from your failure to comply with the requirements of this Agreement.

Exposure to liability to an potential asserted violation, ('(vii) You may not include any third party software on the Media which is intended to be a replacement or substitute for the Software;', anyone? /me thinks of 'java-1.4.2-gcj-compat' which is a partial replacement, essentially be definition) without CentOS having had anyone step forward since the last time this question came up, offering to 'pay the freight' to indemnify the project against such liability.

-- Russ herrold

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[herrold@centos-5 ~]$ rpm -qa *java* sun-javadb-javadoc-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-core-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-demo-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-docs-10.3.1-4.1 gcc-java-4.1.2-42.el5 sun-javadb-client-10.3.1-4.1 java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 sun-javadb-common-10.3.1-4.1 [herrold@centos-5 ~]$ rpm -q jdk --qf '%{arch}\n' x86_64 [herrold@centos-5 ~]$ rpm -q jdk jdk-1.6.0_05-fcs [herrold@centos-5 ~]$

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[herrold@centos-5 java]$ rpm -q jdk ; rpm -q jdk --qf '%{arch}\n' ; \ rpm -qa *java* jdk-1.6.0_07-fcs x86_64 sun-javadb-common-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-demo-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-client-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-javadoc-10.3.1-4.1 gcc-java-4.1.2-42.el5 java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 sun-javadb-docs-10.3.1-4.1 sun-javadb-core-10.3.1-4.1 [herrold@centos-5 java]$ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Hi Russ,

Firstly thank you for your reply, but I am obviously missing something. Yes the sun rpm installs and builds fine. But I have just tried with java-1.4.2-gcj-compat as you recommend and no change. So the alternatives is not configured as I expected

So under

E. Sun JDK 1.6

Up to

chmod +x jdk-6u7-linux-x64-rpm.bin ./jdk-6u7-linux-x64-rpm.bin

Works as expected

But I couldn't work at what I should be using as an alternative to this line rpm -Uvh jdk-6u1-linux-i586.rpm java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.01-1jpp.i586.rpm as no appropriate java-1.6.0-sun-compat exists

So I just did rpm -Uvh jdk-6u7-linux-amd64.rpm

This left me in a situation where no Java related stuff is installed in alternatives.

so I did rm /usr/bin/java /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 1 rm /usr/bin/javac /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/default/bin/javac 1

I then went and downloaded the jdk-1_5_0_15-linux-amd64.bin and installed that doing the similar process with alternatives.

After I read your e-mail I did a yum install java-1.4.2-gcj-compat

This has left me with the following setup as far as alternatives is concerned

+ 1 /usr/java/default/bin/java 2 /opt/jdk1.5.0_15/bin/java * 3 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java

Is this likely to be fine or most likely gonig to cause me issues in the future ?

Anyway thank you for any incite you or others may offer.

Have a nice day :)