On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > It's just annoying that the > packaged location is different from what Sun uses in their RPM version > and Sun should be somewhat of an authority on matters pertaining to java Sun is certainly no authority on how Fedora should build rpms or how GNU/Linux systems should organise directories. But the nice thing is, they're now sort of following the JPackage conventions in their official Java 1.6 RPM:s, so no need for JPackage rpms. Just run their install script (which they confusingly call a self-extracting archive), and you get some rpms installed which interact nicely with alternatives. > - and even more annoying that in this long chain of questions I still > don't have the simple answer of where JAVA_HOME has been hidden for some > small variety of JVMs. Uhm... They're all very consistently placed in /usr/lib/jvm, each directory there is a JAVA_HOME. I wouldn't call that hidden. It's a nice scheme. And Richi Plana pointed out how to set JAVA_HOME already... /abo -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
