I have installed Fedora Core 3 on an AMD 64 Athlon processor. I have successfully installed the 32-bit JRE, but I get the following error when I try to install the 64-bit JRE:

Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
yes
Unpacking...
Checksumming...
0
0
Extracting...
./jre-1_5_0-linux-amd64-rpm.bin: line 263: ./install.sfx.25726: cannot execute binary file

I've downloaded several installation scripts from java.sun.com, java.net, and blackdown.org, but I get the same error with all of them. I've found a few references to this error and it usually results from running the wrong installation script for the platform. I doublechecked that in all cases I had the installation script for Linux with AMD64.

I pretty much chose all the defaults on the installation of Fedora Core 3 (I installed "text-only internet" - no GUI desktop). Was there something I missed to enable 64-bit processing? Or, is there something I need to tweak in the installation script? Are there 64-bit Linux JRE/JDK RPMs available that are not in self-extracting archives (I couldn't find one - not sure if it would help)?

Here's what I get from `uname -a` (apu is the host name):

Linux apu 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Is there some other way I can check that 64-bit processing is available and enabled?

Thanks,
Philip

Hello Philip,

The problem you have here is that you have not installed the 64 bit version of FC3. Do this, re-install (or partition and install) and you'll be laughing.
Regards
Chief Wiggum