Will an RPM from another distribution work with Sun's Java Desktop?

Some third party RPMs built for other distributions will work, but for best results, you should look for the source RPM (xxx.SRPM or xxx.src.rpm). Follow these steps to create a binary rpm that is specific to your versions of system libraries:

1) Install the Java Desktop System development libraries from your distribution media.

2) Now build a new binary rpm using your system libraries with the following command:

rpm --rebuild whatever.src.rpm

This will create a binary rpm in a location specific to your machine's architecture. For example:

/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586

You can install this newly created binary rpm with:

rpm -i /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/whatever.rpm

Brian Nitz at 2007-7-1 21:26:53 >

> Sun Java Desktop System is based on SuSE 8.2

> therefore any SuSE rpm's should install without

> problems.

I tried to install Suse 8.2 RPMs for rcs, and found that I needed glibc 2.3.2.

JDS is operating on glibc 2.2.5.

When I upgraded to 2.3.2, the system became unstable and I had to re-install. I would like to be able to access binary RPMs compiled for JDS.

It is not feasible for me to download, say, the source for Mozilla in order to be able to install Mozilla 1.6.

Peter B. West at 2007-7-1 21:26:53 >

I am running JDS release 1.0 (Mercury) which I believe is primarily based on SuSE 8.1 (our distribution has a 2.4.24 kernel).

When I run the command "rpm --rebuild rcs-5.7-659.src.rpm" it seems to complete sucessfully.

If I do a

"man rcs" it displays the man page as expected

"rcs" it prints the usage as expected

"rpm -qa | grep -i rcs" nothing returned?

Can anyone explain this?

Also what comand can I use to see what binaries are distributed/available with a particular RPM?

R0bl at 2007-7-1 21:26:53 >