On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
It's just annoying that the packaged location is different from what Sun uses in their RPM version and Sun should be somewhat of an authority on matters pertaining to java
Sun is certainly no authority on how Fedora should build rpms or how GNU/Linux systems should organise directories. But the nice thing is, they're now sort of following the JPackage conventions in their official Java 1.6 RPM:s, so no need for JPackage rpms. Just run their install script (which they confusingly call a self-extracting archive), and you get some rpms installed which interact nicely with alternatives.
- and even more annoying that in this long chain of questions I still
don't have the simple answer of where JAVA_HOME has been hidden for some small variety of JVMs.
Uhm... They're all very consistently placed in /usr/lib/jvm, each directory there is a JAVA_HOME. I wouldn't call that hidden. It's a nice scheme. And Richi Plana pointed out how to set JAVA_HOME already...
/abo