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Weblog:   yum install java? Not so fast...
Subject:   java via yum
Date:   2004-05-26 12:53:45
From:   ChrisHuntley
Response to: java via yum

Actually, the sun JDK is in the "non-free" section of jpackage. You have to create your own rpm by combining the jpackage "source" rpm with Sun's binary installer.


It's not too painful, but its certainly not as simple as


yum install j2sdk


You'll have to repeat the process for all the standard extensions like JavaMail and such.


Try


yum install tomcat4


to see what I mean.