On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 10:13 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
> To the best of my recollection, I did a su (I typically do not use
> sudo) 
> in a terminal screen, and then rpm -Uhv foo.rpm .
> 
> Yasha Karant
> 
> On 07/01/2011 09:16 AM, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
> > 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?
I think you guys are confusing the runtime version (jre) with the
complete development version (jse).

When you tried your install, did you do this as root?
I think you may find the installer creates links from the default java
path to the custom path which is why it fails.