installing Sun JDK on Fedora Core 4

[Ross Werner]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Russel Caldwell wrote:

> I'm trying to intall Sun JDK on a machine that has Fedora Core 4 on it
> but I'm getting a message that it can't run in graphical mode and it
> suggests running the installer in -console or -silent mode.

I would suggest building RPMs for the JDK using JPackage. RPMs are much 
easier to install/uninstall/use to resolve dependencies than tarballs or 
Sun's .bin installer. There's a nice walkthrough here: 
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4

If you don't want to go through all those steps yourself, I have the RPMs 
already built for FC4. Email me off-list and I can send them to you if you 
like.

   ~ Ross

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