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Ibm Jre For Centos Plus

The document provides instructions for installing the IBM JRE on CentOS 4.1 in 5 steps: 1. Install prerequisites and the IBM Java package using yum and rpm. 2. Update the system path to include the IBM Java bin directory. 3. Optionally make the CLASSPATH explicit by exporting it in the profile. 4. Optionally make Java available to the Mozilla browser by linking plugins. 5. Reboot to confirm the installation works from a fresh startup.

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Ibm Jre For Centos Plus

The document provides instructions for installing the IBM JRE on CentOS 4.1 in 5 steps: 1. Install prerequisites and the IBM Java package using yum and rpm. 2. Update the system path to include the IBM Java bin directory. 3. Optionally make the CLASSPATH explicit by exporting it in the profile. 4. Optionally make Java available to the Mozilla browser by linking plugins. 5. Reboot to confirm the installation works from a fresh startup.

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IBM JRE for CentOS Plus/Extras?

,
JPackage, etc... -- Firefox and Java on
CentOS 4.1
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> With that said, has anyone looked at building a RPM for the IBM JRE
for,
> say, CentOS Plus and/or Extras? I know it's not quite as compatible,
IBM already releases one.
The short version of the install process is:
[herrold at centos-4 java]$ cat README
RPH on installing the IBM JRE java environment
on CentOS-4 series:
======================================================
1.

Install the pre-requs and the package:

cd /home/herrold/download/IBM/java
sudo yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296
sudo rpm -Uvh IBMJava2-142-ia32-SDK-1.4.2-1.0.i386.rpm
2. Update the path:
/opt/IBMJava2-142/bin
... manually edit /etc/profile, and add:
#
for IBM java
pathmunge /opt/IBMJava2-142/bin before
... just before the "# No core files by default" is a
good spot for it
3. (Optional) Make the CLASSPATH explicit, but adding
/etc/profile :
export CLASSPATH=/opt/IBMJava2-142/bin
-- verify this TBD

it to

4. (Optional) - Make java available to 'mozilla':


cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -s /opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so .
(for early versions (mozilla-1.4 and earlier)
[as root]
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s/opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
5.

Reboot, to confirm it all works from a standing start

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