On 2015-09-04, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> wrote: > > Years ago the recommended way to install Sun's java was to install from > the tar.gz file because the RPM they supplied did some bad things > (clobbered other files or something...can't remember the details). Is > this still the case with Oracle's java RPM, or is it now safe to > install? I've been using the Oracle RPMs. From what I can tell they restrict their writes to /usr/java (plus making symlinks in /usr/bin). --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us