On 07/01/2011 10:13 AM, 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?
>>
>> 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
>>>> [log in to unmask]

For SL 6 X86-64,

rpm -qa reports:

jdk-1.6.0_26-fcs.i586

 From http://javatester.org/version.html

Java Version 1.6.0_26 from Sun Microsystems Inc.

for Firefox 5 current, Linux IA-32 version from firefox-5.0.tar.bz2

Note that I use the IA-32 version, not the X86-64 version, of Firefox 
and Thunderbird.

Yasha Karant