[CentOS] Oracle java RPM
Keith Keller
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri Sep 4 20:57:41 UTC 2015
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
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