Bug 590574

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From looking at the available packages in Fedora 14 x86_64 the 32bit openjdk does not appear to be available still. (even though it can be due to the now non-conflicting nature of the packages)

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This issue still is applicable to Fedora 14 x86_64.. Only the 64bit JVM is available in the package list.  (I can not update the fedora version # since I am not the creator of this bug)

I'm currently not using Fedora any more, but I'll update the Fedora version based on Comment 4.

What is the motivation for requiring a 32-bit JDK on 64-bit installs?

There can be different reasons. One is compatibility with Eclipse RCP applications (like eclipse itself) that are compiled for 32 bit -- they don't work with 64 bit jvm's.

Ah, I see. Are such apps not available in 64-bit? Can you please give me an example of one?

(In reply to comment #8)
> Ah, I see. Are such apps not available in 64-bit? Can you please give me an
> example of one?

Well, several proprietary ones we use over here :) And no, they are not.

The main, and only, app I need is the Juniper Networks NCIU VPN client. I ended up installing the 32-bit JVM and all needed rpms in a different root and then setting the java path appropriately. It works, but it is not simple.

Bill - I'm running into the same issue I think you solved.  I have the Juniper Networks NCUI VPN client, but can't get it to run using 64-bit Java.  Could you please send instructions on installing 32-bit JVM and all needed RPMs?  Thanks in advance...


Linux 2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 27 03:44:59 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.0 (Santiago)

Tom,

I did this for my Fedora 13 desktop. The shell script below was written as I did each bit so it may or may not work well to just run it.

After you have your chroot environment, you can run NCUI (non-chroot even):

/home/Fedora13-i686/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/nc/NC.jar NC -h vpnhost -u vpnuser -p somepass -r realm -f ~/.certfile.cert


Good luck!

--Bill


[bill@tiki bin]$ cat setup-java-chroot.sh 
#!/bin/bash
#Mostly lifted from http://cormander.com/blog/2008/05/install-fc9-into-a-chroot-from-a-dvd-iso/

DESTDIR="/home/Fedora13-i686"


#ISO Not needed. But if you have it.
#ISO="/home/bill/Desktop/Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso"

if [ "" = "$DESTDIR" ]; then
  echo "ERROR: What Deistination Directory?"
  exit 1;
fi


if [ ! -d $DESTDIR ]; then
  echo "ERROR $DESTDIR Does Not Exist"
  exit;
fi

if [ -e $DESTDIR/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java ]; then
  echo "It looks like you already have $DESTDIR/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java";
  exit;
fi


if [ -n "$ISO" ]; then
  if [ ! -e $ISO ]; then
    echo "ERROR: $ISO does not exist"
    exit 1;
  fi
fi

if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "This script should be run as root or with sudo"
  exit;
fi

#Comment out the next line if you really want to run this script
echo "You should read scripts before running them as root."; exit;

# create target directories
mkdir -pv $DESTDIR/dev
mkdir -pv $DESTDIR/etc
mkdir -pv $DESTDIR/proc
mkdir -pv $DESTDIR/var/lib/rpm
mkdir -pv $DESTDIR/mnt/install-dvd

cp -vi /etc/resolv.conf $DESTDIR/etc/

# setup the installroot so yum works inside it
mknod $DESTDIR/dev/null c 1 3
mknod $DESTDIR/dev/tty c 5 0
mknod $DESTDIR/dev/random c 1 8
mknod $DESTDIR/dev/urandom c 1 9
mkdir $DESTDIR/dev/net
mknod $DESTDIR/dev/net/tun c 10 200


mount -t proc none $DESTDIR/proc
rpm --root $DESTDIR --initdb

if [ "$ISO" != "" ]; then
  # mount your Fedora DVD iso image
  # NOTE: change /PATH/TO/ to the path to your .iso file
  mount -o loop $ISO $DESTDIR/mnt/install-dvd

  # create a symlink to the target iso mount
  ln -s $DESTDIR/mnt/install-dvd /mnt/

  # force the install of the release file so we can use its contents for yum
  rpm --root $DESTDIR -Uvh --nodeps $DESTDIR/mnt/install-dvd/Packages/fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm
  umount $DESTDIR/mnt/install-dvd

else

  rpm --root $DESTDIR -Uvh --nodeps http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm
fi

# import the Fedora GPG key
rpm --root $DESTDIR --import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

#Change the base arch to i386
perl -pi -e 's/\$basearch/i386/g' $DESTDIR/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

#Note: Do not add rpm nor yum to run in the chroot environment,
#  it will corrupt the RPM database. To fix, remove
#  $DESTDIR/var/lib/rpm/__db.* and then run
#  rpm --root $DESTDIR --rebuilddb 
#
# Why 398-console? It installs a bunch of stuff we need: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521523
#   If you are not running chroot then you probably only need bash and java.
yum --installroot $DESTDIR install bash java-1.6.0-openjdk net-tools liberation-*fonts* strace net-tools 389-console passwd

echo "Now Use either rpm --root $DESTDIR ...  OR yum --installroot $DESTDIR .... to manage packages"
echo "Or use $DESTDIR/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java"

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