On 07/01/2011 06:09 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I have installed the jre6u24 with no issue; it may be a 32 bit version
> so that it works with 32 bit Firefox 5.

Did you install it in a similar way, i.e. in a non-default path after
extracting the RPM from the binary installer?

K.

> 
> 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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