> BJ Freeman wrote: > > > been searching to find why the sun rpms are condisered not a valid rpm > > by fedora 7 > > if some has had experience would appreciated input. > > otherwise will give feedback once I have a solution. I'm using Fedora 6, because its localization is much better than other distributions, and the look is professional.
Here are the steps you could try: 1. download jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Please don't download other files than this bin. 2. chmod 0755 jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin 3. ./jdk-1_5_0_12-linux-i586-rpm.bin now you can find the jdk files in /usr/java/jdk-1_5_0_12 4. yum install jpackage-utils 5. wget ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.7/generic/RPMS.non-free/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.12-1jpp.i586.rpm 6. rpm -ivh java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.12-1jpp.i586.rpm 7. alternatives --config java select the jdk you just installed. That's all. Good luck! Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd.
