>>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:35 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Evans, Kevin R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark/Ron, > > Ron Baldor had replied....... > "We got them from here: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html > > However, we used the tgz file instead of the rpm. > ... > > Sam (the guy here that is doing this) did use the RPM from the above > URL. He is now trying the tgz file to see if that changes things.
Since you didn't get the package from your Linux distribution provider, I'm not very surprised that you have problems with missing dependencies. Using the .tgz file will not show the same problem, because RPM won't be involved, but then you've just bypassed the software inventory mechanism (similar to zapping things outside of SMP/E or SES), so it won't know anything about what you did. This could very easily lead to problems in the future, if some of the files get deleted, written over, etc. You won't be able to use RPM to verify things. You also won't be able to ask your support provider to help you out, either, since you'll have voided support for that package or set of packages. Only you can decide if having this particular version is worth all that, but if it were me, there would have to be a _really_ strong business case for it. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
