Okay, first of all, Mandrake comes installed with
kaffe which is basically a clone of Java 1.1 (I
think). It's old and tends to be rather inconvenient
these days.
You want to remove that before you install the new
java. Well, maybe you can have both, but I always
remove kaffe.
rpm -e kaffe
You may have to do:
rpm -e --nodeps kaffe
Now I would install the newer java. Most people agree
that the Blackdown java is one of the best for Linux.
On the Konqueror site they actually recommend
Blackdown over the others and state their are
sometimes problems with IBM's and Sun's latest 1.3. I
use Blackdown and so far it has been very successful
for me.
When you install the SDK, it should install the JRE
for you. Therefore, you should not need the jre.
You can get the blackdown java for linux here:
http://www.blackdown.org/
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