Re: Java Runtime Environment plugin for Firefox

On Mer 20 juillet 2005 22:10, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 July 2005 15:29, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> Unfortunately Sun's licensing restrictions make this legally
>> problematic, not that that has stopped some packagers in the past.
>> There's still hope.
>
> Ok, maybe I did something wrong, then, but I got the Sun JDK RPM, the
> java-compat RPM from jpackage (the java compat rpm I used was
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.04-1jpp and is a BINARY compiled RPM, not a
> source one), installed the Sun JDK then the compat RPM (with its deps,
> with
> included the jpackage-utils), made a symlink in my .mozilla to the JRE
> shipped with the Sun JDK, and I was on my way.  Worked (and works) great.

This works too but remember the compat package is not fully equivalent to
the repackaged jvms. It's sort of a best affort packaging, and has been
known to cause no end of problems with yum in the past.


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Nicolas Mailhot