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
is a very underrated tool considering what it adds to the
console
regards
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Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 2:18 PM
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Subject: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from
I think you should do this as user, not root
for the .bin, first do a
chmod 744 filename.bin, then ./filename.bin
for the .rpm do
rpm -i filename.rpm
tazmun wrote:
Hi All
I am very new to Linux and the command line is very intimidating yet.
I have downloaded a supposedly self
First, please turn off "HTML" formatting in your message--in many e-mail programs we end up with all kinds of extra tags.
Now, on to the question at hand.
First do an 'ls -al filename.bin' from the directory the file is in (This of course presupposes that you are at a command prompt). Check to
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From: tazmun
To: Franki
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file
from Sun
Thanks all for your suggestions on this installation. By
changingpermissions and using midnight commander I was able to get
oops sorry about the html coding..running most of my email yet from
windows and much of my output requires html.. :(
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From: tazmun
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:02 PM
Subject: Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun
