[CentOS] Java headaches

Tue Jan 30 06:39:09 UTC 2007
Black Hand <yonsy at blackhandchronicles.homeip.net>

On Tuesday 30 January 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


> 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)
.... <snip> .....
> OK.  What is broken here?

java-1.5.0-sun-compat works ONLY with the jdk, not the jre

i sugest to u to install the jdk, the jre is a subset of the full jdk, if your 
app need jre, then can work with the jdk too.

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Black Hand
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