At 08:32 AM 2/20/2006, Jim Perrin wrote: > > >here are packages for 1.4.2 java versions also. Keep in mind, you > > >still have to get java from > > >java.sun.com. > > > > The instructions I have found say I need j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586-rpm.bin > >Yes. That's the package from sun that I mentioned earlier. Jim, I have a 'problem' that I have too many tasks going at one time. I cannot complete any of them soon, and I have to keep all of them moving. I have recently grabed FreeMind to start documenting all this. I am building up quite a bit of information in there already... > > An earlier reply on this list said I would find what I needed at > > jpackage. The only think I see listed for 1.4.2 on jpackage is > > gcj-compat and Kaffe. Well at least they have 1.4.2 in their discriptions. > >Quit looking at their '60 most recent packages' or only looking in >their free section. Just their free section, listed down the left. >Java is NOT free (as in speech) the way you're >thinking it is. There's 1.4.2 stuff all over jpackage. Below I've >listed samples. > > > So I guess I have to figure out getting the stuff from sun after all... > >I'd swear we covered this already. Jave is not freely distributable. I am sure you did, and I am going through my archived messages for whatever I can find to put together what I need to do. >You get java from java.sun.com (or from ibm or blackdown), So I install the j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586-rpm.bin from https://jsecom16b.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=3221109388A8563CC12A56FD8969DDEC >and then you use the jpackage rpms to help set up a functional java >environment. Sun's packaging sucks in the worst possible way. Jpackage >fixes that for you. Then I add jpackage repro after the centos repro and do a yum update. > > got it. > > > >I hope so. Did not get to it today. I will go for it tomorrow. Unless I get Webmin installed on that box, and I can do this all via webmin. I have installed webmin on my AsteriskAtHome. >-- >"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' >Benjamin Franklin 1775 >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos