How do I subscribe to supplementary server channel to install sun jdk 6 on RHEL 4.x

installation, java, linux, redhat, sun

Solution

Add the supplementary channel/repository:

yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-supplementary

Check that the needed package is available and install:

yum list *-sun-devel
yum install java-1.6.0-sun-devel

Problem

I want to install sun jdk 6 on RHEL 4.x using `yum install java-1.6.0-sun-devel` but found that I have to subscribe to supplementary server channel. How do I do that? Thanks in Advance!

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