[OSM-talk] Java under Fedora (was RE: Does potlatch make it too easy for people to unintentionally screw things up?)

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:40 +0200, David Füreder wrote:
> Andrew Loughhead wrote:
> > Brent Easton wrote:
> >>> To be honest I don't really expect many people to switch from JOSM to  
> >>> Potlatch. JOSM is the more powerful and more flexible editor. Potlatch  
> >>> is really designed for those who are starting out, those who want to  
> >>> make quick changes, and those who (like me) have very limited patience.
> >>>     
> >> Or, who find themselves sitting in front of a strange computer with an hour or two to kill. I  have said bad things in the past, but I have come to very much appreciate JOSM and be thankful that it was available. Thank you Richard.
> >>   
> > I guess you meant Potlatch.  My own "or": who get fed up with how hard 
> > it is installing a JRE under Fedora, versus the much easier installation 
> > of the macromedia player, and who also like the better rendering of the 
> > Yahoo aerial photo background (apart from that 'dimmed' business! ;-)).
> > 
> 
> Installing a JRE under Fedora is a bit tricky, that's true. That's how I 
> do it (assuming you have downloaded jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin):

Starting from F8 (not sure if it is with F7 as well) you can just do:
yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea
after that JOSM will run

otherwise have a look at http://iced-tea.org/download/fedora/