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

[Andrew Loughhead]

Jon Burgess wrote:
> 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
>   
Thanks, brilliant!  I had to install libXp as a dependency, but that was 
easy and those 3 packages did install. 

Then alternatives --config java, select 2, and JOSM is working for me 
again. 

cheers
Andrew.