On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 10:13 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > To the best of my recollection, I did a su (I typically do not use > sudo) > in a terminal screen, and then rpm -Uhv foo.rpm . > > Yasha Karant > > On 07/01/2011 09:16 AM, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > > On 07/01/2011 06:09 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > >> I have installed the jre6u24 with no issue; it may be a 32 bit > version > >> so that it works with 32 bit Firefox 5. > > > > Did you install it in a similar way, i.e. in a non-default path > after > > extracting the RPM from the binary installer? I think you guys are confusing the runtime version (jre) with the complete development version (jse).
When you tried your install, did you do this as root? I think you may find the installer creates links from the default java path to the custom path which is why it fails.
