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ostraaten, you have my sympathy, but you *know* you're going to have to grok package management on that system don't you? ;-)
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ostraaten, you have my sympathy, but you *know* you're going to have to grok package management on that system don't you? ;-)

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Do I really? I just wanted to remain ignorant on the how and why, &nbsp;complain a lot and in the end get to work for me and forget all that has happened. 
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Do I really? I just wanted to remain ignorant on the how and why,  complain a lot and in the end get to work for me and forget all that has happened.

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Hi,<br />
I need Java JRE 1.5 on my SUSE SLES 10 machine. I have been looking in the outer edges of the internet but failed to come up with a current, up-to-date instruction on how to do it. <br />
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My experience with SUSE is always the same. I find some useful piece of info for example <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/linux.suse.sles-e/2007/msg00474.html" rel="ugc">http://osdir.com/ml/linux.suse.sles-e/2007/msg00474.html</a>&nbsp;to find that everything has changed: location of the repositories, content of repositories. <br />
<br />
This makes SUSE very hard to manage for people that are not doing it on a daily basis, like me. I prefer debian, it is a complete different experience, saving me days and days of stupid work.<br />
<br />
Anyway, now that I relieved myself from this frustration, how do I install JRE 1.5 on my SUSE SLES 10 machine?<br />
<br />
Thanks and Regards,<br />
Onno
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Hi,
I need Java JRE 1.5 on my SUSE SLES 10 machine. I have been looking in the outer edges of the internet but failed to come up with a current, up-to-date instruction on how to do it. 

My experience with SUSE is always the same. I find some useful piece of info for example http://osdir.com/ml/linux.suse.sles-e/2007/msg00474.html to find that everything has changed: location of the repositories, content of repositories. 

This makes SUSE very hard to manage for people that are not doing it on a daily basis, like me. I prefer debian, it is a complete different experience, saving me days and days of stupid work.

Anyway, now that I relieved myself from this frustration, how do I install JRE 1.5 on my SUSE SLES 10 machine?

Thanks and Regards,
Onno

How to install Java JRE 1.5 on SUSE Linux

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