I have installed the jre6u24 with no issue; it may be a 32 bit version 
so that it works with 32 bit Firefox 5.

Yasha Karant

On 07/01/2011 08:52 AM, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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:
>
> rpm --initdb --dbpath /rpm --root /path/to/java
> rpm -i --dbpath /rpm  --root /path/to/java --relocate /=/path/to/java
> --nopre --nopost --nodeps jdk-6u26-linux-amd64.rpm
>
> The last command is failing with:
>
> error: Unable to change root directory: Operation not permitted
>
> This way of installing the Java JDK has worked fine in our previous SL5
> setup.
>
> I should add that RHEL6 or SL6 is not listed as supported on the Oracle
> website, see
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/system-configurations-135212.html
> .
>
> Has anyone been able to install an Oracle Java JDK 6 RPM on SL6 (or RHEL6)?
>
> greetings,
>
> Kenneth
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