[Gllug] Problems installing strange things

[Davies Sue]

Thanks

I was able to install the file, unfortunately the site I'm trying to connect
to still doesn't want to play, it appears to only like IE.  I'll get on to
the Company to find out the score.  Thanks to everyone for their help

Suzanne Davies
Technical Support Officer
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Civic Centre, Wood Lane, Dagenham
Essex RM10 7JF
0208 227 2737
07968 521262


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Nasrat [mailto:pnasrat at uk.now.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:40 AM
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Problems installing strange things

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:28:48AM +0100, Davies Sue wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm hoping someone can help.  I'm trying to install what I believe to be a
> Jinitiator, that's what it said on the download site anyway.  Oracle don't
> advertise a Jinitiator for Linux but Netscape had one.  The problem is
it's
> extensions are rpm.bin and I'm at a loss on here as to how to install it.
> It's probably one of the most simple things but I can't find any
information
> on it or work it out.  I'd be grateful for any help you can give

It's probably a shell script with a zipped rpm in it (that's how Sun do
their java rpm) so you have to agree to the license.

Quick sanity check head foo.rpm.bin

(You may want to use strings as well - just in case!)

You probably just need to do

chmod 755 foo.rpm.bin ; ./foo.rpm.bin

Say yes nicely or disagree then it'll nicely unpack the rpm for you and
you can install it.

Note you can use head/tail and strings to find the start of the package
if you really want :)

Paul

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