On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:08, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> > > Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I
> > > found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine.
> > >
> > > Hunting around, I find that I don't even have Java running. I notice that
> > > I have Kaffe pretending to be java.
> > >
> > > I can't find a proper JRE on the cds. Nothing seems to query it up? Out
> > > of despairation, I am currently downloading JRE 1.4.1 from Blackdown.org.
> > >
> > > Is java included with 9.1, and if so, what is the JRE called?
> >
> > j2re-1.4.1_01-2mdk  is the rpm name.  I believe it's in contrib... but
> > it could have been club... I get rpms from so many places I get lost
> > *grin*
> 
> I didn't have the club download configured, so urpmi never checked there. I 
> set it up and it was found.
> 
> Now, the big question is, why is it in club downloads? I would think that java 
> is so central to life that it would be part of the distrobution.
> 
> Rob

One word  License.  Due to the one Sun has on it they (RH SuSe MDK et
al) can't distribute it on the download version ... only commercial
(boxed set) and via something like the club.




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