lamikr wrote: > I am not sure from the installation of rpm versions, because I am just > used to download the .bin versions of sun jdk. > If you install the ".bin" version of Sun JVM, you can basically extract > it to any directory you want. > Then just make sure that the jdk/bin directory where java, javac, etc. > locates is first one in your path. > > After that, you can just launch it by using standard java command. > With some distros, you may need to update all java related symlinks from > /etc/alternatives directory to point to > files under your sun jdk instead of the default ones pointing to non-sun > version. > In Debian, you can use the following command to create java install packages. fakeroot make-jpkg j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin BR.
