installing rpm.bin files

SpecialAgentR · 05-29-2007, 10:34 PM

Essentially I am trying to get Java Runtime Enviornment installed on Firefox. However, the file I downloaded from the site has an rpm.bin tag and I can not install it. Any help is appreciated, I have tried rpm -ihv filename. the file is called jre-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Thanks!

keysorsoze · 05-29-2007, 10:40 PM

SpecialAgentR

Just issue a chmod 700 jre-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin to make it executable. Then ./jre-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin to extract the rpm. Now you have an RPM you can simply issue an rpm -ivh or -Uvh depending on whether you are upgrading or doing a fresh install.

SpecialAgentR · 05-30-2007, 03:09 PM

Ok I issued all those commands and then it wouldn't let me update so I erased my current version of jre and installed the one I had downloaded (listed in first post).

The whole point of this was to try and get the firefox java plugin to work. However, it still dosn't even after I have installed the rpm it told me to. Do you have any other suggestions there? thanks

keysorsoze · 05-30-2007, 05:59 PM

I think you need to make a sym link to your mozilla firefox plugins directory. Try the following but substitue the path to your own java version as necessary.

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

SpecialAgentR · 06-01-2007, 06:40 PM

Thanks alot, that worked. I used symlinks a few times when i took the red hat class but there never seemed much of a practical use for them. What other kind of stuff do you use a symbolic link for??

keysorsoze · 06-01-2007, 10:55 PM

Symlinks are used when a single file needs to be in more than two places or creating shortcuts to directories you just don't want to navigate to continuously, I am pretty sure there are more uses perhaps a Linux Guru can chime in and give us some more reasons to use symlinks because thats all I usually use them for.