A few caveats here:
- The below article assumes you're using Firefox as your browser.
- If you have more than one browser, update Step 4 appropriately.
- The article may be the wrong Service Pack, but this should get you started.
From the Novell Knowledgebase Article 7010472: (Quoted)
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Situation
As a result of a license change SUSE is no longer able to provide Oracle/Sun Java in the distribution or through the update channels. As a result Java will need to be downloaded from the java.com site and manually installed.
This also means that we cannot provide support for Oracle Java. Any support issues should be directed to Oracle. The following information is provided as a potential solution but is not guaranteed.
Resolution
Use YaST -> Software -> Software Management
and remove all previous
versions of Java (e.g. java-1_6_0-sun, icedtea-web). Do not remove
the openjdk version of Java if you have it installed. This is
required for Java functionality in LibreOffice.
Download Oracle Java
Check if you have i586 or x86_64 version of Mozilla Firefox (this
can be different from the architecture of the system). The easiest
way is to open a console and type:
rpm -q --queryformat '%{arch}\n' MozillaFirefox
If x86_64 appears, use the version marked as "Linux x64 RPM".
Visit http://java.com/ and click on Free Java Download. Download
the "Linux RPM" (32 bit) or "Linux x64 RPM" (64 bit) as
appropriate.
As the root user install the downloaded rpm from a terminal by using
the command:
rpm -Uvh <file-name>
Of course replace with the path and name of the rpm file
downloaded from java.com.
Enable the plugin for Firefox.
Logged in as the user that will be running firefox open a terminal
window and do the following:
mkdir -v ~/.mozilla/plugins
(if it already exists that's okay)
rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
~/.mozilla/plugins/
(The "jre1.7.0_05" will need to match the
version just installed)
Close all instances of the Firefox browser then open it up again.
Browse to http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp to verify that
java is installed properly.
Update
After reading the forum mentioned in my comments, it was decided that the following approach works (See Page 2 Post by rjfleck):
Use rpmrebuild
Make sure you are not root, as you want the modified rpm in your user directory.
Set your favorite editor e.g.
setenv EDITOR xemacs
or alternatively:
EDITOR=xemacs;export EDITOR
If EDITOR
isn't set it will default to vi
. See the rpmrebuild manpage.
rpmrebuild -e -p jdk-<version>-linux-x64.rpm
- After the rpm is unpacked, your chosen
EDITOR
should open. Use the
Search and Replace function of the chosen editor to replace all
occurrences of alternatives
with update-alternatives
.
- Save and Exit the updated file, and the rpm should be repackaged.
- Answer Y if asked to continue.
it should output where the rpm was saved to
e.g.
/usr/people/<your username>/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/jdk-<version>-fcs.x86_64.rpm