Hi Troy, thanks for the info. On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Troy Dawson wrote: [...] > Discussion Topic: Java - when will we upgrade to Java 1.6? > Conclusion: Many scientific programs really need us to update to java 1.6, > the biggest name is dCache. > We will put the latest java 1.6 into testing and let people test it for a > month. If we don't have any show stoppers, we will push it out on December > 1, 2008 Maybe OpenJDK6 is the way to go here, instead of using the SUN RPMs? There are EPEL RPMs - including the browser plugin for x86_64. And just imagine signed packages and painless updates... Cheers, Stepahn -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany