On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:37, HG wrote: > Ok... > > On 1/14/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer > > > > > you can not get it to run properly on SUSE linux. > > > > I plan to start working with Java 6, soon, and will install Sun's > > release, naturally. I don't really expect any problems (since > > they've never occurred before), but I'm curious about what might > > have gone wrong for Simon. > > I'm the one who claimed that it doesn't work as well as rpm's. There > are lots of people on this list who think I'm stupid. Some will > undoubtedly write to list that I'm so stupid that I should not be > allowed to use SUSE. They are all correct of course... but still I > plan to use this (as I like YaST).
OK. Well, it sounds like you were expecting something a little better integrated than a generic Sun release can be. Because the SuSE engineers have done a good job at integrating the Java release in the past, your expectations went beyond what the generic installer from Sun can accomplish. I don't have a problem managing multiple installations, even when not all of them are integrated via the /etc/alternatives mechanism, e.g., so as I said, I don't expect any problems. > ... > > -- > HG. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
