<john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote: > I want to download the Java development kit which is supplied as a > file la-de-da-rpm.bin. > > How do I install that? > > It's an rpm, but it's a bin. What's that? > Maybe a binary? Try executing it (make sure it has the execute bit set), e.g. ./la-de-da-rpm.bin Any joy? Jonathan