Dan Thurman wrote:
Can anyone give me some pointers on how to get a serious
Java development environment setup going? I want to have
full flexibility to download and install Eclipse tools and
applications without being unencumbered with Fedora's port
version preventing such operations, for example if I need
to get RCP, WSP, Swing, AWT, and the zillions of other things
that are rapidly being released by the Eclipse community.
It takes a little work, but it can be done. For a 100% "real" Java
environment, you'll first want to remove all the gcj-compiled packages
from your system. The vast majority of these can be identified with:
rpm -qa | egrep 'jpp|eclipse'
Removing these packages should identify any other gcj packages.
(Note that you probably don't want to remove the gcj/gij runtime,
because
OpenOffice.org uses it.)
Now ensure that you won't actually pull any of these packages from the
Fedora yum repositories by adding the following line to all of the
fedora* files in /etc/yum.repos.d:
exclude=*jpp* eclipse*
Now you can set up the JPackage yum repositories as described on the
JPackage site. I recommend adding the following line to all three
repositories in jpackage.repo:
exclude=postgresql*
Good luck!
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