Fedora needs a standard way to install SUN JVM
Many people have said it before, but it's still cause enough for confusion (until we get a release of the FOSS version). We want to be able to do this in a distro and system centric way. This means using RPMS, and not having to hack around with default environments and muck about in /etc/alternatives. For anyone that wants to do this, here is my recommended method:
1. Download the sun jvm rpm, as of this post it's here.
2. Get the corresponding jpackage compat, which is http://jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=5.0&id=489
3. Install one, followed by the other.
4 ...
5 Profit!!!
1. Download the sun jvm rpm, as of this post it's here.
2. Get the corresponding jpackage compat, which is http://jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=5.0&id=489
3. Install one, followed by the other.
4 ...
5 Profit!!!
posted by James M. Leddy @ 3:02 PM
3 Comments:
At November 5, 2007 at 3:33 PM ,
Max Kanat-Alexander said...
I think the recommended way is the way that I suggest on fedorafaq.org:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java
At November 5, 2007 at 3:57 PM ,
Unknown said...
In fedora 8 its already there! Fedora is the first distro to distribute an OpenJDK derived solution for Java. It seems to work quite well on the test releases. Even including a Firefox plugin for x86_64 systems! There's something you can't get from the Sun JVM.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IcedTea
At November 9, 2007 at 7:53 AM ,
James M. Leddy said...
while I have yet to try either Iced Tea or Fedora 8, and I appreciate the effort to try to get part of OpenJDK to the masses, this post was intended for people that either:
A: Don't necessarily have the same "free as in freedom" mindset as everyone else.
B: Need to run apps that are known to be buggy with gcj.
I'd like to point out that of the two catagories, I belong only in the latter.
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