Bug 221541
| Summary: | [DOCUMENTATION] Please update guidelines given in the Install Guide for Fedora Core 6 and JRE 6 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] 389 | Reporter: | Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004> |
| Component: | wiki | Assignee: | Rich Megginson <rmeggins> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | To Ngan <tngan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0.4 | CC: | nkinder, notting, rcritten |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Install_Guide | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-01-23 22:07:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 427409 | ||
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Description
Răzvan Sandu
2007-01-04 23:53:45 UTC
I don't think this is a Fedora DS bug. It sounds like a bug in the Sun RPM packaging. Hello and many thanks, Here is how this can be easily reproduced: 1. Install a fresh Fedora Core 6, with default options. 2. Apply all online updates via yum. 3. Go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp 4. Choose the "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6" section. 5. Press Download. 6. In the next page, accept the license and download the file named "Linux RPM in self-extracting file". It will download a .bin file. 7. On the local system, as root, give the .bin file permissions for execution (x) and run it. It will unpack, extracting a .rpm file with the same name. 8. Try to install the rpm file using the standard "rpm -ivh" command. The installation will fail, apparently because it conflicts with the native Java implementation in Fedora. This is a pretty hard obstacle in smoothly installation and usage of Fedora Directory Server. Regards, Razvan Hello, I've managed to perform the steps described in comment#2 (sorry for the above, it seems first time I didn't use a 100% fresh installation of FC6, but one upgraded from FC5 !). Both JRE 6 and fedora-ds-1.0.4 RPMs installed OK. However, when I did a /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java to switch between java implementations (as instructed in http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4) I get this: There is 1 program that provides 'java'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- *+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: It seems alternatives only "sees" the java implementation built-in in Fedora, so the switch is impossible. If there is a different procedure for FC6, FC-DS 1.0.4 and JRE 6, would you please put in in documentation ? Regards, Răzvan I can appreciate your difficulty. However, the actual solution to and documentation of this problem are outside the scope of Fedora Directory Server. It more properly falls into the domain of the Fedora OS or jpackage.org. However, I added some text to the Install_Guide to state the difficulties with Java 6 and FC-6 that you encountered. I suggest using Sun or IBM Java 1.4 or 1.5 which should work just fine. Hello again, Related to this, installing the above RPM file for JRE 6 also have "stolen" a file association: OpenDocument Spreasheet files on my system (.ods) became "Java archives" and double-clicking them doesn't open with OpenOffice.org Calc. Temporarily, I solved this by deinstalling JRE :-( Regards, Răzvan |