On Tuesday 06 May 2008 12:59:03 pm Kai Ponte wrote:

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What is needed to be done to install java?

Install: java-1_6_0-openjdk or java-1_7_0-icedtea

Those are not Sun Java though. My guess is that we'll have to wait until the release is complete.

Okay, I just checked on my 11.0b2 version. It comes with java 1.6.0_06 from Sun. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:02 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:

Daniel Fuhrmann wrote:

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Am Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008 15:39:31 schrieb Basil Chupin:

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Unlike in 10.3, the java environment (etc - eg, acroread) is not automatically installed.

However, attempting to install it with Yast results in error message that java and its plugin are not available in the repository (..SL-Factory-non-oss/inst-sources-extra/).

What is needed to be done to install java?

Java is now in oss repo. I installed icedtea 1.7 wich works now as VM in my x64 Browser fine with applets. there is also an gcj1.6 version. Both are Opensource now.

Reader doesnt exist jet in repos but you can take the language specific from Adobe.com

Thanks for the above, but the real problem as I discovered is that the references to the URLs in 11.0 Software Management are not totally correct.

Yes they are.

What you need to do is to add 'suse/' to the end of the URLs stated in the Repositories for Factory oss and non-oss (ie, the ends should read '.../suse/').

You should not have to add suse. There was a glitch in the patterns could explain the problems you had. When you add suse, you will use yum (I think it is) repos instead of yast. Someone else can probably explain the 'drawbacks' of that (I think, but am not sure, that it will download the full repo files everytime you refresh etc)

When you do this java will then install, and as a bonus you will also now be able to have ~400 packages upgraded (398 packages in my case).

Ciao.

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Benji Weber wrote:

On 06/05/2008, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Unlike in 10.3, the java environment (etc - eg, acroread) is not automatically installed.

However, attempting to install it with Yast results in error message that java and its plugin are not available in the repository (..SL-Factory-non-oss/inst-sources-extra/).

What is the entire error message? You may be hitting the bug where libzypp attempts to use the wrong URL to download from the susetags rather than rpmmd repository.

If so you could try appending "suse/" to the URL when the download fails, or remove the non-oss repository and add with the /suse/ at the end of the URL.

Thanks for this, but I discovered the answer (suse/) late last night after looking at the details of the URLs stated in the Repositories list; but instead of posting my result here I went on to upgrade the packages- bad move as it took over 1 1/2 hours and I ended up going to bed close to 0200 hours :-D . Thanks again. Ciao. -- If you want to know what a man is like, take a look at how he treats his inferiors not his equals. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org