Linux rpm

Note that the latex style file axodraw4j.sty is not installed by these rpms. You have to download and install it separately.

These rpms were built on a Fedora Core 3 system and tested on RHEL 3. NOTE that no java check is done, the rpm will install fine without java, but the program won't run. NOTE also that JaxoDraw needs a Sun Java installation, it doesn't work with current GNU java (gcj) which is installed by default on many Linux distros today.

Instructions

Note: You must have root privileges, in order to install rpm packages.

If you have downloaded the rpm package of JaxoDraw, you can install the jaxodraw-xxx.rpm with

rpm -Uvh --nosignature jaxodraw-xxx.rpm

JPackage

From version 1.3-0 on, we tried to make our JaxoDraw rpms compatible with the conventions of the JPackage project. This means that you need to install a Java rpm from their web site.

There are two possible ways for doing that (check this mailing list discussion for a more detailed explanation):

  1. You install a j2sdk rpm from Sun and the corresponding java-xxx-sun-compat rpm from JPackage.
  2. You rebuild yourself one of the java-xxx-sun nosrc.rpms from JPackage.

The second alternative is generally preferred.