[Glastonbury] New to it

[peter cole]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 17:40, maurice wrote:
> Three cheers. 
> 
> Below is the first message received on Kmail and this is the first sent.
> 
> Once again thanks to all who helped me launch Mandrake Linux.
> 
> However, Firefox has a jinx. More of that when I finally solve the problem.
> 
> I'm looking to download and install the Java Runtime Engine. The download site 
> offered a heinz variety of installations. Any thoughts please on which one I 
> need?
> 

I think i went for the off line installation as a biniary file ? 

this is the linux self extracting file ( running mandrake you may be
able to use the rpm )

>From what i remember you down load the file.
Create a directory in say /opt called java 
so 
/opt/java copy the file that you download into here. ( you will need to
be root to do this ( and to create the directory.) you then need to make
the file executable rh mouse click on the file and tick the make
executable box ok this. 

then i opened a command line terminal 

and did 

cd /
cd opt/java
then 

./your file name here that was executable

this will then go throught the setup of java.


Hope this helps it was a while ago i did this so not totally fresh in my
memory 

Regards 

Peter

> Maurice
> 
> On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 13:41, tim hall wrote:
> > Last Saturday 18 December 2004 11:40, Sean Miller was like:
> > > >And hurrah. The connection was maintained just long enough to download
> > > > the Firefox browser. I used Ark without knowing why. Happily Firefox
> > > > installed itself without a problem and launched automatically at the
> > > > end of the set-up process. By that time, of course, the internet
> > > > connection had gone down. Re-booted to see if the connection would
> > > > re-establish and couldn't find Firefox. I've found a Firefox folder but
> > > > cannot discover an executable file. Any assistance would be welcomed.
> >
> > /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > tim hall
> > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
> >
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