Re: JAVA plugin for netscape/mozilla

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:47:02 -0400 (EDT) Mike Burger
<mburger compucomis net> imparted to us:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, ABrady wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:27:27 -0000 "Mike Burger"
> > <mburger compucomis net> imparted to us:
> >
> > > Ray Curtis <ray ccux com> said:
> > >
> > > > Or if you don't have it installed already, go to:
> > > >
> > > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-linux.html
> > >
> > > I think I'm having a stupid moment, here.
> > >
> > > I went to the above link, downloaded the file, but it has an
> rpm.bin
> > > suffix.
> > >
> > > I try to RPM -ivh, and am told that it doesn't appear to be an RPM
> > > file.
> > >
> > > I'm sitting here with a little bit of egg on my face, but how do I
> > > "unbin" the
> > > file so that I can use it with RPM?
> >
> > Not sure. Prolly:
> >
> > chmod +x <filename.rpm.bin>
> > ./<filename.rpm.bin>
> > rpm -ivh <filename.rpm>
> >
> > That'd be what I'd try, anyway.
> 
> Ok...got 3 replies suggesting that.
> 
> Now, j2re-1.3.1-linux-i386 is chmod 755, and I've even renamed it from
> j2re-1.3.1-i386-linux.rpm.bin to j2re-1.3.1-i386-linux.rpm.
> 
> In either case, I can't "rpm-ivh" or "rpm-Uvh" it...I get:
> 
> "error: j2re-1.3.1-linux-i386.rpm does not appear to be a RPM package"

Try running it first:

./j2re-1.3.1-<etc>rpm.bin

Note that you are running the .bin file to make it become the .rpm file.
It isn't currently in rpm format and will continue to error out.

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