Re: Help installing Java

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 06/30/05

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:13:18 +0100

    On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:05 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
    > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 16:48 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
    > > Look out for the 3rd Issue of Fedora Weekly News at FedoraNews.org,
    > > which will include a step-by-step guide to building and installing the
    > > JPackage java RPM.
    > >
    > > The FC4 release notes specifically advise against installing the Sun
    > > java RPM by the way.
    >
    > Found it. Thanks. When I try to remove the old one which I'd like to do
    > before installing the new one I get an error when doing an rpm -e that
    > the package is not installed and with yum it says not packages marked
    > for removal. What is the best way to remove it? There is no uninstall.

    try:
    # rpm -e `rpm
    -qf /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so`

    (that's all one line)

    That should identofy the right rpm to remove.

    Paul. 

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