thanks for your reply. was hoping someone had loaded the 1.4.2.14 of the jdk already have 1.5 on the machine.
Shi Jinghai sent the following on 6/27/2007 10:49 PM: >> 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. > > > > >
