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

[Brent Easton]

We found installing Ubuntu easier ;)

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On 13/10/2007 at 11:57 AM Jon Burgess  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):
> 
> chmod +x
>jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
> su
> ./jre-6u3-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
>
>update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java 
>
>/usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/bin/java 1501
> update-alternatives --auto java
>
>java -version
> 
> That updates the alternatives system to point the
>/usr/bin/java symlink 
> to the current JRE java. If another alternative
>to java has a higher 
> priority than 1501, the java link won't update.
>You can then either 
> increase the priority by using the same install
>command, but with a 
> different priority or use the manual mode, e.g.:
>
>update-alternatives --set java /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/bin/java
> 
> You can
>look at the installed alternatives for java with:
> alternatives --display
>java
> 

While the above steps result in a working Java install it can
>cause
problems if you want to switch back to the Fedora supplied GCJ
>etc.

The recommended approach is to download the nosrc.rpm file
>from
jpackage.org and then use these to convert the Sun package 
into an
>installable RPM by following http://www.jpackage.org/nosrc.php

The file
>you want is
>probably:
http://www.jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=1.7&id=7539
>

	Jon



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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au