RE: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread Franki
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

Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread Carlos Berardi
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

Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread Michael D. Viron
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