Re: Installing program

Ben <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Xenofontas wrote:

> I have red hat linux 5 server and I want to install java. I downloaded 
> from sun a file for installation which is a .bin file. Can someone tell me 
> how I can install this file?

chmod 755 <filename>.bin
./<filename>.bin
(accept the license thingy)
(allow the extracted RPM to install)

Alternatively accept the license thingy, then hit Ctrl-C as soon as the RPM 
is extracted and install the extracted RPM at your leisure.  Which is what I 
do.

Ben
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