cant install Sun Java on Fedora 7
 

hiya all,

total linux newbie here, so please bare with me if i say anything stupid :)

i am trying to get Azureus installed but obviously i need to install Java first.

so i went to the java download site and grabbed both the self extracting archive and the rpm self extracting archive.

they download fine to the desktop but then when i double click on either file i just get an error message about the associated helper application not existing and that i need to change my preferences.

its at this point i hit a dead end, i've tried changing the preferences so that it'll load with something else, nothing has worked. i thought it was just a case of double clicking the file and the install utility will get on with it.

any ideas what im doing wrong?

TiA

nOmArch

ok, problem was the file was corrupted so i got the proper one and got the rpm file extracted. but when i try to install it with the 'rpm -iv' command i just get an error message saying that

Preparing packages for installation...
package jre-1.6.0_03-fcs is already installed

and drops back to the command line, i've tried uninstalling the Java support from add/remove programs but that hasn't made any difference.

any ideas?