[ale] OT: Java-6u11

[Scott Castaline]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> The Sun Java site should have both rpm and bin packages.  You should use
> the latter for simplicity if you don't want it to replace the existing
> rpm.  
> 
> When I looked at the Sun Java site not too long ago for a 1.5.x and
> didn't want to replace the installed Java from RedHat on my RHEL4 box I
> did the following:
> 
> 1)  Downloaded 32 bit version of Java 1.5.0_17 (file name
> jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin) from java.sun.com site.
> 2)  Transfered the file to /tmp on server
> 3)  On server ran chmod 755 on file.
> 4)  mkdir /tmp/jdk-1_5_0_17
> 5)  cd /tmp/jdk-1_5_0_17
> 6)  Ran ../jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin to execute the downloaded file.
> This extracted the files into the directory made.
> 7)  Run the "java -version" on the Java executable in bin subdirectory
> created by the previous step.   This should indicate which version is
> there.
> 
> Of course then you'd need to insure the path to this Java executable is
> in your $PATH variable before the one to the system Java.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Scott Castaline
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:19 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] OT: Java-6u11
> 
> I have the need to use the latest Java plugin by SUN on Fedora 9 and 
> FireFox 3.0.5. I'm currently running the OpenJDK that goes with the 
> Fedora Distribution(s). I have tried with no success of removing it DL 
> Java from SUN and then run the installer. It claimed to have installed, 
> but it was not working. I then tried to remove it and rpm claimed that 
> it was not installed. I then tried redoing the rpm install and it 
> claimed that it was already installed. I eventually went back to the 
> original set up and all seems to be working at this point. Anyone have 
> any suggestions? 6u11 seems to be a lot different that the previous 
> versions. I don't remember having this much trouble trying to do this 
> before.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Scott
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I had done all of that and it didn't work. Something is different as I 
have done it with 1.5.x and 1.6.x without any serious problems. Now it 
thinks that it is already installed when I try to install it and that it 
is not installed if I try to remove it.