Probably solved well enough,,, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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. I just deleted the broken link to java in /etc/alternatives, and made a new one. Now Freemind is running. I still have to see about getting java plugged into Firefox, I think.