On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:15:43AM -0600, Ash Christopher wrote: > Instead of faking the RPM database into thinking Java is installed, you > could try installing Java via rpm. This is a useful technique, thanks for sending it. the thing is, i *had* installed java via rpm - the rpms you can download from Sun. But some other rpms i wanted to install (i think the "red hat application server" bundling of tomcat et al) were expecting a different capability that sun hadn't mentioned. danno