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

[Lauri Hahne]

Under Fedora 7 it's just as easy. Just make sure you don't have any of
their gcj et al packages installed and install from Sun's installer
and it will just work(tm).

On 13/10/2007, Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu> wrote:
> 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/
>
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Lauri Hahne