64bit java 1.5 upgrade n00b.com

[Guest yonatan.eisenberg]

Concise but detailed:

I go to java.com

I get the Linux AMD 64 RPM (I have an ASUS A6K-Q002H laptop with a Turion MT30 B) )

I follow the installation instructions to the letter... and then it gets weird:

I have a /usr/java/ directory... That's strange, the java.com website tells me I don't have it... Anyway, I press on with the installation:

[user@box ~]$su -
Password:
[root@box ~]#mv ~user/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64-rpm.bin /usr/java/
[root@box ~]#cd /usr/java
[root@box java]#chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
[root@box java]#./jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
[root@box java]#urpmi jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64.rpm

and I get the following message:

The package(s) are already installed
The following package names were assumed: jre

so I look at where I am and what's going on around me:

[root@box java]# pwd
/usr/java
[root@box java]# ls -l
total 30992
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       25 Oct  8 10:16 j2re1.4.2 -> ../../usr/lib64/jre-1.4.2/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       25 Oct  8 10:16 jre1.4.2 -> ../../usr/lib64/jre-1.4.2/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 15956589 Jun  3 10:36 jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64.rpm
-rwxrwxr-x  1 user  user  15736735 Oct 10 10:02 jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64-rpm.bin*

So there IS a javainstallation there already.... but the java command isn't there:

[root@ubertronmt30 java]# java -version
-bash: java: command not found

so I get into the jre1.4.2 directory, find out there's a bin subdirectory, get into that, see there is an executable java file there and execute it with ./java -version (I want to know what I have). I also cheat a little in the code to save space...

[root@ubertronmt30 java]# cd jre1.4.2/bin/
[root@ubertronmt30 bin]# ./java -version
java version "1.4.2-02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.4.2-02)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build Blackdown-1.4.2-02, mixed mode)

So I have java, albeit not the right version... and here are the questions:

1. Why does urpmi tell me that jre1.5 is installed when all I can find is jre1.4

2. How can I get jre1.5 installed?

 

Thanks for trawling through this- I thought I might as well give you all the info straight up if I want an straight answer back.

 

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[neddie]

Hi, and welcome to the group!

I won't be able to help too much I'm afraid as I haven't got 1.5 and I haven't got 64-bit. But I have got blackdown's 1.4.2 and it's pretty hard to get that accidentally - either you or someone else must have manually downloaded that from blackdown.org and installed it. And I see that blackdown haven't got 1.5 yet, so that's not an option.

 

One question - why did you use urpmi to try to install the rpm, instead of the rpm command?

And what do you see if you type "rpm -qa | grep jre" ?