Do you have to do that? Doesn't your company to have an IT department to take care of that sort of thing? It shouldn't be a tester's job to install things on a remote system.
Looks like you have JVM 1.4.2 installed. It's been a while since I've used Red Hat, but if I recall correctly their RPM package for java was essentially just a wrapper around the Sun binary java package. You could probably just download the Java binary package from Sun, install it somewhere and use that. Java doesn't need anything special to run. All you need to do is make sure that the environment variables JAVA_HOME, PATH and CLASSPATH are set to point to your install of Java. Since you already have a JVM on your system, you'll want to make sure that your PATH is set up so that your JVM is found instead of the system one. Path is searched in the order the directories appear in the path, so just put your JVM's location at the start of it. Don't forget to document all this, especially if your company has any sort of business process they have to conform with. -- Bruce Ide flyingrhenqu...@gmail.com
