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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