[CentOS] Re: centos] [OT] IBM JRE for CentOS Plus/Extras?, JPackage, etc... -- Firefox and Java on CentOS 4.1

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> With that said, has anyone looked at building a RPM for the IBM JRE for,
> say, CentOS Plus and/or Extras?  I know it's not quite as compatible,

IBM already releases one.

The short version of the install process is:

[herrold at centos-4 java]$ cat README


         RPH on installing the IBM JRE java environment
                 on CentOS-4 series:
         ======================================================

         1.      Install the pre-requs and the package:

         cd /home/herrold/download/IBM/java
         sudo yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33  compat-libstdc++-296
         sudo rpm -Uvh IBMJava2-142-ia32-SDK-1.4.2-1.0.i386.rpm


         2. Update the path:

         /opt/IBMJava2-142/bin

                 ... manually edit /etc/profile, and add:

         #       for IBM java
         pathmunge /opt/IBMJava2-142/bin before


                 ... just before the "# No core files by default" is a
         good spot for it


         3. (Optional) Make the CLASSPATH explicit, but adding  it to
         /etc/profile  :

          export CLASSPATH=/opt/IBMJava2-142/bin

         -- verify this TBD


         4. (Optional) - Make java available to 'mozilla':

         cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
         sudo ln -s  /opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so .

         (for early versions (mozilla-1.4 and earlier)

         [as root]
         cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
         ln -s/opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so .


         5.      Reboot, to confirm it all works from a standing start


[herrold at centos-4 java]$