It shouldnt be that hard really. and it aint. its just for a mediocre user like me its a pure hell if you dont know what you are doing. openjdk my ass. all linuxes have that damned package. its not that it doesnt work as expected, but i want to run and compile my software in the environment it is going to be used. and that aint for sure not openjdk.
so i tried to install fedora (that i would classify as developer focused), destroyed my ubuntu partition along the way because i just had to operate the gui while the disk was formatted and then fedora froze. then rebooted and grub didn’t work.
i considered that since i had been smart enough to commit before i began the process (duh) i would just wipe the partition and use it as a data partition.
Next. fedora is installed. first things first. i googled for a reasonable way of installing suns jdk. one hit told me to make direct symbolic links. Even i saw that was not an option. a better way was to use alternatives. i even got Firefox up and running with Java in one line of code. and that is very important. i never managed that in ubuntu. but then again you could say that i installed fedora only to learn how to update Firefox’s libjavaplugin.so with alternatives. which of course is insane but i didn’t like ubuntu anyhow.
I then downloaded eclipse. but as a total silly i chose the 64 bit version. my fedora was x86 so it couldnt execute.
then it was time to go home for the weekend. left with the hope that somewhere on the Internet there is a Linux bundled with the latest sun Java development kit and eclipse enterprise edition. it must be because this is killing me. over and over again.
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