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. -- Black Hand Amiga Addicts