Well, almost there... Black Hand wrote: > 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. OK. I removed jre and installed jdk. This allowed me to install the java-sun-compat from jpackage.org, but now.... java -version gets command not found. I THINK in part this might be due to the Alternatives commands I entered? I HAVE NOT been able to trace through all the links. It seems to be a mess! And of course, although I finally got freemind installed (all sorts of things needed from jpackage for that), it won't run without finding java.