It's easy to forget that YDL is based on CentOS which is designed to be
two or three versions behind the latest bleeding edge releases of Linux
in the effort to maintain stability.  Therefore supporting rpms are
likewise not in the latest versions either.

So if you are building any applications from source you need to make
sure that you also build from source all related rpms, but before all
that you also need to remove from YDL the rpms of dependencies and
applications which are already installed which you intend to replace.
I've gotten caught by this requirement myself several times. This whole
process is rather tedious but if you get through it all, you will have
eventually what you want as you want it.

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 10:38 +1100, Stephen Harker wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:42:26PM +0000, Pat Wall wrote:
> > Hi Robert
> > 
> > Fixstars have posted a howto on ydl.net for getting IBM's Java working 
> > with Firefox - see 
> > http://www.ydl.net/support/solutions/ydl_general/firefox-java.shtml for 
> > the Howto with the runtime environment available here 
> > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html.
> 
> I had followed a similar procedure using the latest IBM Java
> (ibm-java-ppc-sdk-6.0-6.0.ppc.rpm) and it worked well with the Firefox
> supplied with YDL 6.2 and with a self-compiled Firefox 3.5.4.
> However, when I upgraded to a self-compiled Firefox 3.6b3 or 3.6b5
> Java did not work.  At the moment I have no idea why.
> 


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