JDK-4378912 : Installing JDK1.3 on Linux is unnecessarily difficult
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: install
  • Sub-Component: install
  • Affected Version: 1.3.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic,linux
  • CPU: generic,x86
  • Submitted: 2000-10-12
  • Updated: 2004-09-01
  • Resolved: 2004-09-01
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-4397088 - Linux RPMs for JSDK and JRE have no common "provides" clause
Relates :  
JDK-4405489 - JDK 1.3 RPM installation problem in Redhat 7.0
Description
Name: rmT116609			Date: 10/12/2000


Well... should be 1.3 but installation failed

I've read your installation guide and followed every steps already, the Linux
JDK1.3 installation shell script failed to run, error message:

"./j2sdk-1_3_0-linux-rpm.sh: more: command not found
 '/j2sdk-1_3_0-linux-rpm.sh: line 182: syntax error near unexpected token `in
 '/j2sdk-1_3_0-linux-rpm.sh: line 182: `    case $reply in"

i found out in 2nd line of your shell script set the PATH wrongly so can't find
"more" but only solve the first problem.  still can't get the shell script to
run.

Then i read your shell script and performed a
"tail +255 j2sdk-1_3_0-linux-rpm.sh > install.sfx.$$"
manually, and resulted in a file which checksum is different from the one
specified in the shell script.  i tried to execute the resulting file anyway and
get a message like this:

"BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info:
 Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed!"

If you guys are kind enough to package the JDK in a tar.gz or rpm format i'm
already using the latest JDK already...

thank you for your time
(Review ID: 110621) 
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Comments
EVALUATION I do not see the reported failure on RedHat Linux 6.1 or 6.2. Please provide more details on the failure such as the exact OS on which you are trying to install the RPM packages for Linux. I'd like to reproduce this bug on the platform on which you are installing. More details should make this possible. Thanks. james.melvin@East 2000-11-06 Please supply the above info so we can get started on a resolution. The J2SE v1.3 for Linux is also available in 'tar.gz' format at... http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html james.melvin@East 2000-11-08 =========================================================================== I have sent a mail to the submitter asking to provide more details on the failure such as the exact OS on which he is trying to install the RPM packages for Linux ranjith.mandala@Eng 2000-12-18 =========================================================================== I accidentally closed this bug as a duplicate of 4397088, but it has nothing to do with that bug. I meant to close this bug as 'cannot reproduce'. ###@###.### 2004-09-02
02-09-2004