[CentOS] Installing Java 7 on a system with Java 6

My system is 5.6, with upgrades. I installed Java 6 from the Centos repository. It doesn't seem to have Java 7. I need the development package. How can I install Java 7 development safely? I imagine I will first have to uninstall Java 6. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief

[CentOS] Need versions of automake and autoconf not in repository

, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

[CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

What should I specify in the yum install command? I have CentOS 5.8, fully updated, but it still has Java 1.6. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

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[CentOS] Maybe OT: Mailman keeps breaking.

from my consultant. Unless it can be made stable I will have to abandon it. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities

[CentOS] OT: Documentation for Mailman

, but the changes have not taken effect. Presumably the list must be restarted in some way, but I can't find out how. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities

[CentOS] Can I get rid of i86 packages and libraries on an x86_64 virtual server?

The server is a vpn with only 20 GB of storage. I would like to free up disk space. Even if I must keep some i86 stuff, I think I can get rid of the dev packages for it. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com

[CentOS] Setting up a Virtual Machine

. Will I have to assign memory to the VM permanently? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Setting up a Virtual Machine

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Re: [CentOS] Setting up a Virtual Machine

http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

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[CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

for Web hosting. Something on the server is leaking memory. When first booted it has nearly 1.5 GB of free memory. Now this is down to .75 GB. Any hints will be appreciated. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison

[CentOS] Problem booting in CentOS 5.6

pausing? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] Recommended mailing list manager for CentOS 5.6

Does CentOS 5.6 have a mailing list manager like ecartis or majordomo? I want to set up mailing lists for my server in the cloud for three domains that I own. What mailing list managers do yourecommend, and where can they be found? I don't ming compiling source code. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer

[CentOS] What package contains ifconfig?

I don't have ifconfig on my new installation of CentOS 5.6, but it is on my server in the cloud. What package contains it? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people

Re: [CentOS] What package contains ifconfig?

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[CentOS] Is anyone using the Orca screenreader?

. Since I am both blind and deaf, I will be using a braille display. I also need to make sure that the application is usable by other blind people. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing

[CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get autotools working on CentOS. It's the only distro in which I have had problems. How do i bring this to the attention of those who make the decisions? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

I used rhel up to a few weeks ago and had no problem with autotools. it is definitely a CentOS issue. Thanks, John On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:14:00AM +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: John J. Boyer wrote: You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

for fetching both liblouisand libluiusutdml from their repositories, or you can get them from the download page at http://www.abilitiessoft.com Thanks, John On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:17:31AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John J. Boyer wrote: You saw my previous message about

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

something else from the CentOS repository, please tell me what. Thanks, John On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:39:52AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John J. Boyer wrote: I used rhel up to a few weeks ago and had no problem with autotools. it is definitely a CentOS issue. And you've

[CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

to another distro, even Cygwin, for C development. That is a shame, because Centos is great in other respects. - Forwarded message from John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com - Subject: Strange autotools error From: John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 00

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

then complains I don't have liblouis installed. Looks fine to me, and I'm not going to make any effort to actually make it build. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John J. Boyer

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

fiund about the source files. Thanks, John Ljubomir ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com

[CentOS] There ain't a CentOS autotools bug!

Lars Hecking found the problem. Quitge some time ago configure.ac had been edited in Windows. This left dos line breaks. When I removed these liblouisutdml built fine. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison

[CentOS] What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6?

I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my /etc and /usr directories and do an update? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http

[CentOS] Changing the size of the swap memory

When I first installed my CentOS system the machine had only 1 GB. the swap memory was set to 2 GB Now the machine has 4 GB but swap is still 2 GB. With that much memory maybe it doesn't matter, but it sure looks odd. Is there any way to change it? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President

[CentOS] Changing Host Name

to abilitiessoft.com Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] Strange autotools error

Makefile and Could not find input file Makefile. I've herd that I need another development package. What is it? Or what causes these contradictory messages? I must say that I have encountered this sort of problem only on CentOS. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer

[CentOS] How do I Install and activate?

I have just installed CentOS 5.6 from disk and updated it. 1. I would like to use telnet on my local network. How do I activate it? 2. How do I install Mercurial? it is not in the repository. 3. How do I install eclipse? It is also not in the repository. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer

Re: [CentOS] How do I Install and activate?

I got Eclipse. I have some older devices that won't work with ssh. Maybe I'll try upgrading their firmware, but meanwhile, I do need to use them. John On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:39:43AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John J. Boyer wrote: I have just installed CentOS 5.6 from disk and updated

[CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

I have a RHEL system and I'm thinking of changing to CentOW. How can this be done most easily. It is important that the e-mail setup not be disturbed, since it was crafted to work with an IP that requires authentication. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer

[CentOS] Installing rather than changing

development work as possible. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

\) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f echo Running autoreconf... autoreconf --force --install exit 0 Again, this works fine on my home Linux machine, and even on Cygwin. Thanks, John On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/17/2011 12:49 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: Les, I

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

message. If you need more information I will try to provide it. Thanks, John On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:59:07AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:32:24PM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: I have a CentOS virtual private server from 1and1.com If I checkout or pull something from

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

Tools Development Libraries and maybe X Software Development. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software

[CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

could not be found on some line or that there is a syntax error. This happens even with the latest updates. Several people have been unable to help. What is the problem, and what should I do about it? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http