Hi Linux masters!

I'm just a newbie to Linux and I'm trying to install a Java 1.5.0 SDK to my newly-installed slackware 10. I've extracted the RPM file needed for the installation, but everytime that I run it, using the command "rpm -iv <file>.rpm" I get the following error message:

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<eplacepkgs '//root/java_inst/jdk.rpm';echo RESULT=$?
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc >= 2.1.2-11 is needed by jdk-1.5.0-fcs
sh-utils >= 2.0-1 is needed by jdk-1.5.0-fcs
fileutils >= 4.0-8 is needed by jdk-1.5.0-fcs
gawk >= 3.0.4-1 is needed by jdk-1.5.0-fcs
textutils >= 2.0-2 is needed by jdk-1.5.0-fcs
/bin/sh is needed by jdk-1.5.0-fcs
RESULT=1

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Help me to resolve this so i can istall the java sdk?!?!?!

Thanks a lot!

A couple of things you can use the --nodeps to have it ignore dependancies. If you don't have these files that may cause it to not work though. When you su up to install do you use su - so that your paths are correct? You can also try ldconfig as root befor eyou try to install if you had just installed some stuff if all else fails make sure you have those files installed. oh you have slack 10. Don't use the rpm. Use the bin. chmod a+x javafile.bin then unpack either in you /usr/lib directory or anywhere and move to /usr/lib then make a symblic link from /usr/lib/java to your java-1.5 directory then when you want to upgrade just delete and recreate the symlink to your new directory. That way you don't have to reset up your paths and what not. If you insist on using the rpm then do rpm -iv --nodeps java-1.5.rpm to install the file

hi mAineAc,

Thanks a lot, I just included the "--nodeps" option on the rpm command, it worked so far, I have now my J2SE 1.5.0 on my slack 10, and i hope it will behave properly.

Thanks a lot again

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