[lug] Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[Matt Thompson]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:32 -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> Has anyone tried this lately?  Sun ships an executable shell script
> that extracts an RPM from itself, then you are supposed to install the
> RPM.  Unfortunately, RHEL3 has a broken version of less which doesn't
> accept the -1 or +511 parameters, so the shell script broke.  (These
> are deprecated switches that RH in its wisdom decided to remove, thus
> breaking lots of old shell scripts.)
> 
> I was able to figure out the script and extracted the RPM by hand, but
> the RPM itself has a shell script the uses "less -1" and it wouldn't
> install.

I can't help you as I'm a FC3 man, but I know Dag ships his own EL3 and
EL4 j2re rpms:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/j2re/

They are 1.4.2, not 5, so that might be too old for you.

Matt
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