[CentOS] openjdk

Thu Oct 15 21:15:55 UTC 2009
Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov>

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote on 10/15/2009 05:01 PM:
> Hey, folks,
> 
>   yum is telling me that I need to update openjdk on several servers.
> HOWEVER, they've all got openjdk-plugin installed, and yum doesn't want
> to update, and tells me there's no openjdk-plugin package to install, at
> least for 5.3.
> 
>   What I see, googling, is the workaround is to install Sun's java.... Is
> there any openjdk-plugin for java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
> 1:1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5? If not, and the servers have users running X, is
> there any reason for either upgrading, or for that matter, even
> installing openjdk, instead of the officious <g> Sun jdk?

Please avoid thread hijacking.

Known bug.  Workarounds are linked from
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3574

Phil