FC4 / java / bin files

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 00:36 -0230, Shane Lahey wrote:
> Hello jeff,
> 
> Friday, July 22, 2005, 12:30:50 AM, you wrote:
> 
> jl> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 13:09, Ted Gervais wrote:
> >> I am trying to get java working in fc4 and in particular version 1.5.
> >> I downloaded this file:
> >>
> >> jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> >>
> >> And thought I could 'run' that file to produce an RPM file. From there,
> >> I should have been able to install it.
> >>
> >> No luck.
> >>
> >> Where have I gone wrong?
> 
> 
> jl> as a user:
> jl> run:
> jl> chmod 777 jre*rpm.bin
> 
> jl> as root:
> jl> run:
> jl> ./jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> 
> jl> YMMV
> jl> jeff lee
> 
> best to use: chmod 0755 ./jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Or just 
# sh jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin

and forget the chmod altogether.  Shouldn't need to be root for this,
just for the subsequent

# rpm -Uvh jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.rpm

Phil