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Newbie-ish Q on installing with RPM

Newbie-ish Q on installing with RPM

Post by goldenteefre » Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:17:56



I have a freshly installed RH 7.1 w/ KDE.

Trying to install java.1.3.. I downloaded the RPM package. the filename was
saved as java_1.....etc...rpm.bin. Now, it ends with bin, and I can't
figure out how to use rpm on this b/c it says it's not valid rpm. I'm
guessing the .bin is some sort of zip or rar format??? I dunno how to
extract it, or shoudl I just try renaming it???

Also, I've tried instlaling licq as well. Which I can't yet, because I am
missing 2 dependacies. 1 of which is some 'libcrypto.o' or something if i
rememmber correctly..

Anyways, I find the most frustrating thing about Linux is installing apps,
RPM looks good but I always get these dependacy problems, and I dunno where
the best place is to install software like this (/usr/bin???)

If anyone has a webpage that more easily explains these apparent trivial
tasks which I can't seem to perform in linux, let me know :)

-Dano

 
 
 
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Newbie-ish Q on installing with RPM

Post by Mark Hammon » Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:35:57


I believe that the bin extension needs to be run like any other binary.
In other words:

chmod to executable and ./jdk...rpm.bin



> I have a freshly installed RH 7.1 w/ KDE.  Trying to install java.1.3..
> I downloaded the RPM package. the filename was saved as
> java_1.....etc...rpm.bin. Now, it ends with bin, and I can't figure out
> how to use rpm on this b/c it says it's not valid rpm. I'm guessing the
> .bin is some sort of zip or rar format??? I dunno how to extract it, or
> shoudl I just try renaming it???  Also, I've tried instlaling licq as
> well. Which I can't yet, because I am missing 2 dependacies. 1 of which
> is some 'libcrypto.o' or something if i rememmber correctly..
> Anyways, I find the most frustrating thing about Linux is installing
> apps, RPM looks good but I always get these dependacy problems, and I
> dunno where the best place is to install software like this
> (/usr/bin???)  If anyone has a webpage that more easily explains these
> apparent trivial tasks which I can't seem to perform in linux, let me
> know :)  -Dano


 
 
 
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