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

[Jon Burgess]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 23:51 +1000, Andrew Loughhead wrote:
> 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!
> 

You don't need ODBC or mkfontdir if you just install the core java
packages. I have installed:

$ grep java-1.6 /var/log/rpmpkgs
java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.2-1jpp.x86_64.rpm
java-1.6.0-sun-devel-1.6.0.2-1jpp.x86_64.rpm
java-1.6.0-sun-src-1.6.0.2-1jpp.x86_64.rpm

	Jon