I was looking into installing a Java JDK 1.6.0 on our Scientific Linux 6
systems, and found it to fail.
We need to install Java under a non-default path, e.g. /path/to/java,
and therefore extract the RPM found on the Oracle website from the RPM
binary installer using:
./jdk-6u26-linux-x64-rpm.bin -x
We then install the RPM obtained this way as follows: