type in mc at the command line, (you need to have midnight comander
installed, but you probably do anyway)
That will ring up a lovely blue screen you can navigate around in,, (self
explanitory when you see it..)
go to where your rpm is,, then highlight in in MC (again, self explanitory
when you see it.) and press enter...
you will go into the rpm where you can see two options, upgrade and install,
choose the one you want, highlight it and press enter,, it will then install
or upgrade it for you...
Thats they way I did things before getting more familiar with things
myself...
I think mc is a very underrated tool considering what it adds to the
console....
regards
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tazmun
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 2:18 PM
To: newbie
Subject: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun
Hi All
I am very new to Linux and the command line is very intimidating yet. I
have downloaded a supposedly self extracting file (.bin) as well as the rpm
version of the file. They suggest in the install directions that this be
done from the command line and tell you that by using a command(./) on both
of the files will start a script asking if you agree to their agreement
first. This command on either file just gets me a permission denied error
whether I'm logged on as a user or as root. This file is to install the
runtime java enviroment required by Staroffice for any java applications to
function. The file will not run in kpackage in the rpm version
either......if you try to execute it it will error and say is it not
executeable. I am running Mandrake 7.1 for now. I've also tried the
rpm -ivh and -iv commands to no avail either.....help please.....I hate the
Redmond gang but this is driving me nuts too!!
Anyone helping here please assume I know nothing of the command line in
their directions.
Tazmun
