Would there be any technical differences if I installed Java from an RPM versus just running the available binary? I am running on CentOs 6.3 and Java is 1.7
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Would there be any technical differences if I installed Java from an RPM versus just running the available binary? I am running on CentOs 6.3 and Java is 1.7
Depends what you mean by “technical differences” and “just running the available binary” but, no, there is no difference to running the bundled RPM version of the JRE/JKD from the exact same JRE/JDK, from the same manufacturer, for the same version, for the same platform and for the same architecture (32/64bit) from a downloaded TGZ.
An Operating System bundled JRE/JDK may have bundled extra libs, security configuration, certificates which may be different to a vanilla TGZ.