This one stumped me for some time.  I was trying to simply install the Sun version of the JDK onto a VMWare instance of Red Hat ES4 and I kept coming upon this error.  I initially figured it must be a dependency issue and I tried all sorts of things to get it to work.  Later in the day, I tried downloading the JDK without the Enterprise Edition version of Java.  This time when I ran the executable to install the JDK it worked perfectly.  Evidently, the JDK with the EE attached does not want to install on Red Hat ES4.  Hopefully, you won’t need it and the JDK without the EE serves you fine.  What a nasty hidden bug.

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