On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:02:47PM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Gareth Eason wrote:
> >ditros CANNOT legally make packages for easy distribution. If you're
> >finding it difficult to set up under Linux, please approach Sun
> >Microsystems and ask them to license Java (or at least the JDK) so that
> FWIW:
> - Sun provide RPMs IIRC (not sure for what distros)
> - Dag Wieers Apt/yum repository provides rpms for at least j2re for
> FC, easily apt-get install'able
> - There are other java runtimes and devel environments
> (Java as an open specification != implementation and all that..)
I recommend jpackage.org for this - it has loads of Java packages. But
getting Tomcat working is still a nightmare, even with all their
assistance.
john
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