FC5 - quick yum fix for java plugin?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 25 07:15:17 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:44 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 22 April 2006 12:15, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> >On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:05 -0400, Marc M wrote:
> >> I am having trouble getting my java plugin to work properly.  I am
> >> trying to run a cbt on a training website and firefox sends me to
> >> the java site for the plugin.  I have downloaded the rpm.bin file,
> >> run the script, chmodded the rpm to 777, and I still get the
> >> following.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any good updated yum locations where I can just
> >> grab a good file with some updated repo's, that are likely to fix
> >> all of these dependencies?
> >
> >Assuming you're running 32-bit FC5, go here for instructions.
> >
> >http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Java
> 
> Trying to set this up as a (gasp) user, I'm sort of following along with 
> the idea being that I don't have to run as root, AND at some point I'll 
> get the java plugin working with firefox.
> 
> Failing rather miserably at the bottom of that documents page 7. As 
> root, or su -, doesn't make any diff:
> [root at diablo plugins]# rpm -ivh 
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo
> Retrieving http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo
> error: open of <!DOCTYPE failed: No such file or directory
> error: open of HTML failed: No such file or directory
> error: open of PUBLIC failed: No such file or directory

It would appear you have downloaded an HTML file instead of the plain
text freshrpms.repo file. It would appear that you have a broken URL:

$ curl http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo was not found on
this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.2 (Unix) Server at ftp.freshrpms.net Port
80</address>
</body></html>

Paul.




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