Rule of Tech » centos http://ruleoftech.com Everything and nothing but still something about Tech Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:58:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Installing Sun JDK 1.6 on CentOS http://ruleoftech.com/journal/installing-sun-jdk-1-6-on-centos http://ruleoftech.com/journal/installing-sun-jdk-1-6-on-centos#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:28:52 +0000 Marko http://ruleoftech.com/?p=138 CentOS doesn’t have a package for Sun JDK so it has to installed manually. It’s fairly easy but there are some steps to do that. This guide has been tested on CentOS 5.4 x64_86.

Step 1. Initial setup for building RPM
-!- Do this with a non-root user

  1. Create ~/.rpmmacros 
    • $ vim ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home//rpmbuild
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
  2. Create needed folders: 
    • $ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,RPMS,tmp,BUILD}
  3. Build environment needs to be complete.
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]]> CentOS doesn’t have a package for Sun JDK so it has to installed manually. It’s fairly easy but there are some steps to do that. This guide has been tested on CentOS 5.4 x64_86.

Step 1. Initial setup for building RPM
-!- Do this with a non-root user

  1. Create ~/.rpmmacros 
    • $ vim ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home//rpmbuild
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
  2. Create needed folders: 
    • $ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,RPMS,tmp,BUILD}
  3. Build environment needs to be complete. Some needed packages are: 
    • $ sudo yum install -y rpm-build gcc gcc-c++ redhat-rpm-config

Step 2. Installing your favorite JDK

  1. Download Sun JDK 1.6 update 14 from Sun Java download or the Sun JDK archive.
    • Choose the correct platform (for me it’s Linux x64) and download jdk-6u18-linux-x64-rpm.bin
  2. Give it executable rights: $ chmod 755 jdk-6u18-linux-x64-rpm.bin
  3. Run the binary to extract it into RPM form: $ ./jdk-6u18-linux-x64-rpm.bin
  4. Install it: 
    • $ sudo rpm -Uvh jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rpm
  5. Log out and in again to make the changes in the paths take effect
  6. Check the install 
    • $ java -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_18-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)
  7. Java is now installed on /usr/bin/java

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