I lost my harddrive, and have had to reinstall. This time, I am being a bit smarter on imaging, but still got to get things installed...

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)

Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package java-1.5.0-sun-compat.noarch 0:1.5.0.09-1jpp set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_09-fcs for package: java-1.5.0-sun-compat --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_09-fcs is needed by package java-1.5.0-sun-compat

Huh?

so i just try Alfred von Campe's Alternatitive commands:

/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin/java 10 \ --slave /usr/bin/rmiregistry rmiregistry /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin/rmiregistry \ --slave /usr/lib/jvm/jre jre /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09 /usr/sbin/alternatives --set java /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin/java

These seem to work but:

rpm -ivh jgoodies-forms-1.0.5-2jpp.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: java >= 0:1.4 is needed by jgoodies-forms-1.0.5-2jpp.noarch

and java -version yields:

java version "1.5.0_09" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_09-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_09-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

OK. What is broken here?