java install not showing license agreement
 

Installed Fedora 13 on an old computer (Sony Vaio RX660 with a 1.8 gig P4 cpu). Downloaded java 21 bin file and as root, placed it in a folder I created: /usr/java so it would be accessible to all users.

as root in terminal I did a chmod a+x to the file. Then ls -l, which showed I had full read/write with it. Finally, still root, and in terminal, I did the ./jre <etc>.bin and the package immediately unpacked and created files, but never showed me a license agreement to accept.

Java, of course, does not work. What am I doing wrong? Why no license agreement?

Thanks

Moxieman

Make a symbolic link from /usr/java/java-???/bin/java to /usr/bin/java should get java working.
have no idea, maybe a bad download?

Isn't there rpm for Fedora 13? Why everybody try to manually install things on RPM based distro's? 80-90% of those attempts finish here on forums asking why it does not work.

@ DrLove73 : RPM :
I think these two rpm methods are described quite often at LQ :

jre-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.bin
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-f13.html#java
( Is also the first hit by Googling .. sun java fedora 13 .. ).

And the ScientificLinux jdk - RPM :
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...0-fcs.i586.rpm
..

Thanks, but I can't get java to show a license. It installs enough to make the computer think that it's there, but firefox and everything else don't see it.

Didn't have this problem in F 10, so I'll probably downgrade.

Thanks for your help. I learned a lot.

I NEVER EVER saw Java's licence on package based systems, maybe just a reminder while yum installs. And if you bothered to read first link @knudfl wrote, you would solve your "no one sees it" problem.

@knudfl, I used that method on CentOS 5.x long time ago, and I DO know they exist, I just like to make them wonder and interested in simple solutions. I download and place jre rpms (for few years) now in my own repository and install from there. Linking unfortunately must be done manually for now.

#5 :
Linking : the default method is .. example :
1) su
2)
3) /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
.. and choose "sun".

Firefox : You can just make a direct link like this :
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
# ln -s /usr/java/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.21/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
.......

I did read @knudfl's link, and found it quite helpful. Unfortunately, I still could not get a proper installation. I used the rpm package, uninstalled and tried yum which borked saying that java was already installed.

My "no seeing the lincese" I took to be a symptom of the underlying problem with the install. In and of itself, not seeing a license is not a problem.

Like I said, F10 was not a problem. RPM'd, manual linked, and on my way. I will tinker some more and if no success, will downgrade.

Thanks.

Do you by any chance use 64-bit system? Or JRE instead of JDK?

This is text I keep and use for my CentOS systems:

I will check it out. Thanks.