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

[Rick Collins]

There are a series of messages under this thread 
that seem to have lost all line returns.  In my 
email program (Eudora) I see each entire message 
as a single long line which is wrapped in my 
display.  This makes them very, very hard to read.  Why is this happening?


At 09:51 AM 10/13/2007, you wrote:
>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  
> >   Well, yes that is the approach that google 
>revealed.  I think I have only downloaded the 
>wrong thing from Sun 3 times so far.  But I have 
>tried again, and got a little further this 
>time.  Steps were: 1. As you suggested get the 
>nosrc.rpm from 
>http://www.jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=1.7&id=7539 
>2. rpm -i java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.3-1jpp.nosrc.rpm 
>3. Download jdk-6u3-linux-i586.bin from 
>Sun.  Start at X, select  Java(TM) SE 
>Development Kit 6 Update 3, get "Linux 
>self-extracting file".  Move 
>jdk-6u3-linux-i586.bin to 
>/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/. 4. rpmbuild -ba 
>/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/java-1.6.0-sun.spec 5. 
>Find finished rpm files in 
>/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586. 6. rpm -ivh --test 
>java*. 7. Discover we apparently need 
>/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir, instead of 
>/usr/bin/mkfontdir, and also libodbc.so and 
>libodbcinst.so.  Hmm, lucky this is the simple 
>way of getting a JRE! 8. Discover detailed 
>discussion of all this at 
>http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/howto-sun-java-on-fedora-7/. 
>9.  Consider modifying spec files, etc, etc, 
>etc. 10.  Go back to using Potlatch, and resolve 
>to just nuke all GCJ stuff and install the Sun 
>rpm directly.  Tomorrow. 11. Against better 
>judgement, install unixODBC and 
>unixODBC-devel.  Now have libodbc.so and 
>libodbsinst.so. 12. rpm -ivh --test 
>java*.  Nope, still fails with libodbc and 
>libodbcinst, and mkfontdir.  Now so impressed by 
>how straightforward it is to have a JRE on 
>Fedora in the approved way that I need to take a 
>good lie down!  ;-)  And there you have it.  I 
>think my "or" still stands! cheers Andrew. 
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