Comments on: Installing Java on RedHat Linux by building your own RPM http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/ My Blog, Take 4 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:44:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dating Guy http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Dating Guy Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:21:49 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=346#comment-615 @Mark Wielaard thanks for the tip :) Just been messing around with the so called official way on centos.org and was about to try nick's way when i saw your comment... Thanks! @Mark Wielaard thanks for the tip :) Just been messing around with the so called official way on centos.org and was about to try nick’s way when i saw your comment… Thanks!

]]> By: rf http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/comment-page-1/#comment-533 rf Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:23:45 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=346#comment-533 I already had rpmbuild and jpackage installed, so I didn't encounter that issue. But, regardless, following the instructions here... http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17599&forum=38 ... worked correctly, correcting for jdk6. I think the "priority" field in the spec file needs to be set to 1611 for alternatives to work, probably because I already had a jpackage version of java installed. The "Release:" field doesn't seem to do much except to tell rpm what version of the rpm is newest. Anyway, thanks for getting me going in the right direction. At the time I was looking, your site had a google monopoly on "jpackage 6u11" I already had rpmbuild and jpackage installed, so I didn’t encounter that issue. But, regardless, following the instructions here…

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17599&forum=38

… worked correctly, correcting for jdk6. I think the “priority” field in the spec file needs to be set to 1611 for alternatives to work, probably because I already had a jpackage version of java installed. The “Release:” field doesn’t seem to do much except to tell rpm what version of the rpm is newest.

Anyway, thanks for getting me going in the right direction. At the time I was looking, your site had a google monopoly on “jpackage 6u11″

]]> By: Nick Lothian http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/comment-page-1/#comment-529 Nick Lothian Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:08:32 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=346#comment-529 Hmm.. well that would be bad. I tried it on a 64 bit CentOS 5 system, and "yum install yum-utils jpackage-utils rpm-build " failed because of a missing dependency: Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies Error: Package rpm-libs needs rpm = 4.4.2-47.el5, this is not available. Sorry that I can't help more than that. Hmm.. well that would be bad. I tried it on a 64 bit CentOS 5 system, and “yum install yum-utils jpackage-utils rpm-build ” failed because of a missing dependency:
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package rpm-libs needs rpm = 4.4.2-47.el5, this is not available.

Sorry that I can’t help more than that.

]]> By: rf http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/comment-page-1/#comment-528 rf Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:01:49 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=346#comment-528 Just FYI: I tried this on x86_64 centos 5.2 and it broke the alternatives system. I previously had gcj and jdk 6u6 installed and working using an existing jpackge rpm. After doing this with 6u11, all mention of sun-java-1.6.0 has been removed in /var/lib/alternatives. Just FYI: I tried this on x86_64 centos 5.2 and it broke the alternatives system. I previously had gcj and jdk 6u6 installed and working using an existing jpackge rpm. After doing this with 6u11, all mention of sun-java-1.6.0 has been removed in /var/lib/alternatives.

]]> By: Nick Lothian http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Nick Lothian Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:29:31 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=346#comment-520 Sometimes you need those damn proprietary binaries though... Sometimes you need those damn proprietary binaries though…

]]> By: Mark Wielaard http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/12/07/installing-java-on-redhat-linux-by-building-your-own-rpm/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Mark Wielaard Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:11:51 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=346#comment-519 When using CentOS you might want to use EPEL http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). Then installing IcedTea/OpenJDK is as simple as: $ su -c "rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm" $ su -c "yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk" Also that is build from GPLed Free Software source, not repackaged proprietary binaries. When using CentOS you might want to use EPEL http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). Then installing IcedTea/OpenJDK is as simple as:

$ su -c “rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm”

$ su -c “yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk”

Also that is build from GPLed Free Software source, not repackaged proprietary binaries.

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