On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 05:04:11PM -0700, Bryan Sant wrote:
> After dealing with the same type of questions about installing Java on
> Linux, I've decided to post instructions on how to do it the ubber
^^^^^That's uber, with an umlaut. Misspellings are decidedly not cool. > cool way (aka the way I do it). The way I do it is heavy handed and > flies in the face of traditional package management on your distro of > choice, but nonetheless it is the most bull crap free way of getting > Java running quickly and correctly. > > If you disagree with the way I set things up then just remember, you > and wrong, and I am right. And oh, so tactful. > Now, with no further ado, here are the steps: If your disty has alternatives, you should run it to get the internal setup to play correctly with the new java. For example, I have the jpackage version of tomcat, but it picks up java 1.5 for compiling JSPs, so I can use enums in them. See http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/#sun-java Of course Edgy Eft users can simply follow those instructions and belay all the pseudo-macho uber-cool stuff. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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