[CentOS] Problem getting JavaRuntime Environment installedintoOpenOffice

Fri Mar 7 22:53:40 UTC 2008
Therese Trudeau <mswotr at hotmail.com>

>>>  Sure I'll give that a try.  I thought I had the latest  
>>> release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just 
>>> come out with a new one?
>>>  
>>>  If I install the latest, does the script un-install the 
>>> previous version I just installed?
>>> 
>>> I'm also wondering if I got the correct JRE?  I got the JRE from here:  
>>> http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
>> 
>> You can have multiple JREs installed, but since this one
>> ain't working 100% may as well uninstall it manually
>> with yum remove '*jre*'
>> 
>> If you aren't doing Java development or hosting a JSP
>> server there is no real need to have the JDK either.
> 
> OK, I ran the un install (do not have JDK installed), un install apparently went fine, then I downloaded the jre-6u5-linux-x64-rpm.bin from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp,
> Followed these instructions:  http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jre/install-linux.html#install
> then installed it.  
> 
> Ran a ls -l /usr/java, below is output:
> 
> total 16
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   16 Mar  7 17:28 default -> /usr/java/latest
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar  7 17:28 jre1.6.0_05
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 Mar  7 17:28 latest -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05
> 
> Ran java -version, output is:
> 
> java version "1.6.0_05"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_05-b13)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)
> 
> Tried to find it in the OO Calc Tools>Options dialog box, only Free Software Foundation v 1.4.2
> 
> Maybe I'm not using Tools>Options correctly?  

I meant to say above - only Free Software Foundation v 1.4.2 shows up in dialog box, the new JRE is not showing.
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