-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 April 2003 07:57 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Mel Seder wrote: > > --- Kevin Freeman <kfreem02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > FYI > > > > > > Sun has released a new beta of j2se 1.4.2 that seems to work with > > > the > > > > > > new kernel and gcc 3.2. The plugin works fine using Mozilla 1.3 on > > > my > > > system. > > > > > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html > > > > The file has rpm.bin at the end. How do I convert it to a regulary > > .rpm so that a "rpm -Uvh" will work on it? > > if it's like previous releases, just "sh file.rpm.bin" Or: chmod +x j2re-1_4_2-beta-linux-i586-rpm.bin ./j2re-1_4_2-beta-linux-i586-rpm.bin Then install the resulting package: rpm -Uvh j2re-1_4_2-beta-linux-i586.rpm And, because the next question is always "How do I make the plugin work..." ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so\ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ This assumes mozilla 1.3 which requires the plugin compiled with gcc-3.2. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+j5uOn/07WoAb/SsRAg2DAKCRT1Hf7dWOx3XNoV/P1j0EKtAX7QCggH6L 4IrJLBWNAcRuaky4dEJELXs= =U+JI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
