Custom Java installation

[lesliek]

I am trying to achieve the above, following the instructions in www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/custom_java.html.

I completed step 7, downloading the JPackage Java 1.5.0 Source RPM directly, because I couldn't get it from the Jpackage site, as predicted in the instructions

However, when I followed step 8, this is what I got:

[root@localhost leslie]# rpmbuild --rebuild java-1.5.0-sun*src.rpm
Installing java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.03-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
warning: user david does not exist - using root
warning: group nanaruser does not exist - using root
warning: user david does not exist - using root
warning: group nanaruser does not exist - using root
warning: user david does not exist - using root
warning: group nanaruser does not exist - using root
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70995
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ rm -rf /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/jdk1.5.0_03
+ export MORE=10000
+ MORE=10000
+ sh /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin
sh: /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin: No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70995 (%prep)


RPM build errors:
user david does not exist - using root
group nanaruser does not exist - using root
user david does not exist - using root
group nanaruser does not exist - using root
user david does not exist - using root
group nanaruser does not exist - using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70995 (%prep)
[root@localhost leslie]#

Nor were there created any rpms created in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/

I'd be grateful for advice as to how to overcome my problem.

[Jman]

You need to get Java from Sun first, as it is not redistributable. You'll need the latest non-rpm jdk from Sun, probably jdk-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin.

[lesliek]

Thank you for your reply, Jman.

I did get Java from Sun first. That was the subject of steps 1-6 of the instructions I'm following. The result of those instructions should have been to put into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ the file jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin.

I departed from those instructions in one respect only. The file I got from Sun was the "04" version, instead of "03". I checked and I do have in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ the file jdk-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin.

As to step 7 of the instructions, I downloaded the file I was told to download. It's java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.03-1jpp.nosrc.rpm. I downloaded it to /home/leslie/, as instructed.

It's step 8 and what's supposed to happen when I issue the rpmbuild command that's troubling me.

However, writing this out for you has made me realise something. The output I got when issuing the rpmbuild command shows that it was the "03" version of the binary file that wasn't found. Quite right, since I don't have the "03" one; instead, I have the "04" one.

I don't have access to my own computer right now, but is the problem as simple as that I must have the "03" version of the binary file, not the "04" one?
Thanks again,

Leslie

Later: I couldn't find the "03" version of the binary file at Sun, but I did find an "04" version of the nosrc.rpm file at JPackage. When the numbers of the two files were the same, the Java installation seems to have concluded satisfactorily.