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Java IcedTea (OpenJDK)

by jpmahowald — last modified May 07, 2008 03:38 AM

Previously to get a Sun JDK for Java required additional steps as it was not redistributable. With IcedTea, based on OpenJDK, there is a Fedora package of the Java 1.7 preview.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

  • Fedora 8

Doing the Work

Install IcedTea

  1. Install  the packages with yum 
    2. yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin java-1.7.0-icedtea-devel

You now should be able to run or compile programs with the java and javac programs, respectively, and use the web browser plugin.

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

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