Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:38 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used nothing but RPMs for CEntOS, would I have a real working

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:16 -0700, nate wrote: Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used nothing but RPMs for CEntOS, would I have

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread nate
Ric Moore wrote: Whew. Getting jetty and java all classpath straight and working together has been a pain. Everything I've read and googled says I done the proper steps, so it's something I'm not getting right on my end, and to ask the list to figure it out would be too huge a chore to ask of

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used nothing but RPMs for CEntOS, would I have a real working java install? I need some help on this

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:38 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:32 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used nothing but RPMs for CEntOS, would

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm used to beating on alternatives now... it's a wonder it can't be easier though. Well, not really, every distro out there has some unique formula for where things are put and that is what kills the spread of Linux for Joe

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Ric Moore wrote: I'm used to beating on alternatives now... it's a wonder it can't be easier though. Well, not really, every distro out there has some unique formula for where things are put and that is what kills the spread of Linux for Joe LunchBucket as well as Admins. Hopefully, --one

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Ric Moore wrote: http://jpackage.org/ makes your life easier. Which of the jpackage sites do you use for yum? I'm definitely looking into cfengine, as mentioned by Nate. I prefer easy over bare- knucks any day. I just rpm -e'd everything on this system with

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:13 -0700, MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm used to beating on alternatives now... it's a wonder it can't be easier though. Well, not really, every distro out there has some unique formula for where things are put

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:15 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Ric Moore wrote: http://jpackage.org/ makes your life easier. Which of the jpackage sites do you use for yum? I'm definitely looking into cfengine, as mentioned by Nate. i'm not quite sure what you're

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 11, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Ric Moore wrote: I'm sorry, I was in Deer in the headlights mode. I should have said repos specifically. I have had these enabled: * epel: mirror.its.uidaho.edu * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com * jpackage-fc: planetmirror.com * jpackage-generic-nonfree:

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:13 -0700, MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm used to beating on alternatives now... it's a wonder it can't be easier though. Well, not really, every distro out there has some unique formula for where things are put

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:37 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Ric Moore wrote: I'm sorry, I was in Deer in the headlights mode. I should have said repos specifically. I have had these enabled: * epel: mirror.its.uidaho.edu * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:14 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exercise and lay off the GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader)! :)) snip I know that's no help, Not at all - I like the GRUB (pun intended...). I'm on the see-food diet, too, so NHT. mhr

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:37 -0700, MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:14 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exercise and lay off the GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader)! :)) snip I know that's no help, Not at all - I like the GRUB (pun intended...). I'm on the