[CentOS] JPackage, Java 1.5.0, and CentOS 5?

On 4/20/07, Francois Caen <frcaen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/20/07, Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr> wrote:
> > I have downloaded and installed JDK 1.5.0_11 by downloading and running
> > it from SUN's site. No needs for any HOWTOs, except for how to create a
> > link to mozilla/plugins available on SUN's site, so as to use the jre
> > from firefox.
>
> The problem with doing it the way you did is, you forgot you were
> using an RPM-based distribution. Now rpm doesn't know about your java.
> And when your java needs to be updated to patch something, rpm won't
> be there for you.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I've done it the lazy way too. But it's not the Right
> Way.
>
> --
> Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA
> SpiderMaker, LLC
>

There's no right way yet. Maybe they're coming with the right way with
OpenJDK or other project.

Anyway, for the sake of simplicity, Sun provides RPMs, which may be enough
if you don't need packages from JPackage.
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