Java 1.5
 

Anybody had sucsess with this for redhat 8 as I downloaded the sdk bin and the jre but nether would open.... are the files broken or am I doing something wrong.

what do u mean by-->" sdk bin and the jre but nether would open".
Please provide more details .. as to what you are doing..

Generally.. to install a .bin file

#chmod a+x name_of_the_bin_file.bin
#./name_of_the_bin_file.bin

its ok I found out it was my hard disk that was slowly dying (serves me right for using knackerd fijutsu drives from uni bin)