Problem in installing Sun Java on F-11_86

[fav0nius]

Hi,

I have a freshly installed fedora 11 system. Most of the issues resolved and it is working fine. Now I wanted to install Sun jdk for my project work. I have downloaded the latest release ( jdk-6u14-linux-i586-rpm.bin ) from the http://java.sun.com and tried installing it.....
Everything starts neatly then boom.... it stops and crib about some

__db.000

file in

/var/lib/rpm/

The complete stack trace is as follows.....

Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
   yes
Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu).
  inflating: jdk-6u14-linux-i586.rpm  
  inflating: sun-javadb-common-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: sun-javadb-core-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: sun-javadb-client-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: sun-javadb-demo-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: sun-javadb-docs-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: sun-javadb-javadoc-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm  
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 (No such file or directory)
Installing JavaDB
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 (No such file or directory)
 
Done.

Does anyone have any solution??
I am kind of stuck and can not proceed with my work.....

P.S.: Open jdk is good but due to some project constraint I can not use it....

[Dangermouse]

I havent tried ver 14 but i had no problems with 13 heres how i installed it
http://dnmouse.org/java.html

[fav0nius]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

I havent tried ver 14 but i had no problems with 13 heres how i installed it
http://dnmouse.org/java.html

Hello Dangermouse,

Thanks for such a prompt reply...
I have tried the procedure mentioned on the site.... but I am still getting the same problem....

[fav0nius]

Okk finally i am able to install sun's jdk but using the jdk-6u14-linux-i586.bin. ..... after struggling for 2 hrs I surrendered and deleted the jdk-6u14-linux-i586-rpm.bin ...

Ok these are the steps I have followed....

Get the latest package from http://java.sun.com... the one without the 'rpm' ...

Fire the following command to make it executable

chmod a+x jdk-6u14-linux-i586.bin

Now run the installer

./jdk-6u14-linux-i586.bin

There will be a long license ... after agreeing with it.... it will unpack all the things in your current working dir....

Now after this it is up to you where you place it....
I have copied mine in /usr/local/java/

for that...fire the following commands one by one

su

mkdir /usr/local/java

mv jdk1.6.0_14 /usr/local/java

after moving it to your desired position.. i logged out from root user...and updated my ~/.bash_profile using this command

gedit ~/.bash_profile

put the following line into the .bash_profile

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_14
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

and do not forget to keep these lines before the following line....

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH

otherwise the default i.e. openjdk will be picked every time....

done this far i faced the same problem as mentioned on http://dnmouse.org/java.html .... solution is also mentioned there.... remove the openjdk browser plugin.....

now the last part is installing sun's jre plugin for firefox....

just fire this command one by one....

cd ~/.mozilla/plugins

and then

ln -s /usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_14/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so

after this last step i am able to use sun jdk as default for my profile .... And it is working fine

[Dangermouse]

I have found another thread where somehad the same error message as you, that might help you
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=211145

[sravani]

Even I was getting the same error while using the rpm.bin file of jdk.
Identified that the problem is because i was not logged in a user.
Login a root and execute the bin file, it should be successful.