[CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

2012-01-10 Thread e-letter
Readers, Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version of java should be reported as a bug; http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] java installation failure

2011-12-22 Thread e-letter
Message: 46 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:11:53 -0500 From: m.r...@5-cent.us Subject: Re: [CentOS] java installation failure To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org What are you running on, and what are you running, 32 java/64bit h/w, or 64/64? 64 bit java, 64 bit hardware Did you look

Re: [CentOS] java installation failure

2011-12-20 Thread e-letter
Message: 37 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:41:26 -0500 From: m.r...@5-cent.us Subject: Re: [CentOS] java installation failure To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org I would suggest that if openjdk doesn't work, you go with Sun/Oracle's java, which is the Source of All Java Sun java was

[CentOS] java installation failure

2011-12-16 Thread e-letter
Readers, Openjdk and ibm java versions have failed to install, all reporting a bad elf, e.g. ./ibm-java-i386-sdk-7.0-0.0.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the JRE from the installer archive... Unpacking the JRE... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...

Re: [CentOS] java installation failure

2011-12-16 Thread e-letter
Further information: the environment is centos60 64bit. the reason to change is the bug previously reported: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] java installation failure

2011-12-16 Thread e-letter
Have tried to install various versions of java, none successful. The reason is that originally davmail32bit (my mistake to try) was found not to work with the original centos jdk. Then this was tried with davmail64bit which was also unsuccessful ___