On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Sunny Sandhu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i'm not sure if this is the right email address to send a question of
> this nature to, i apologize if it isn't.
>
> I just downloaded the file jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86-tar.bz2 and i am
> unsure how to install it. I am new to Linux, and i am aware of the
> command 'tar zxvf filename', but i get an error message that it doens't
> look like a tar archive. i tried renaming to a .Z and .tar extension
> but it didn't work.
>
> thanks.
>
First you should have bzip2 package installed in you machine. If you are
using RedHat < 5.0 try
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/bzip2-0.9.0b-1.i386.rpm
if RedHat > 5.0
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.1 (or 0)/RedHat/RPMS/bzip2-0.1pl2-1.i386.rpm
If you have other linux distribution try
http://www.digistar.com/bzip2/bzip2-*.*
After this try:
bzip2 -d jdk.......tar.bz2
and you'll obtain the tar file. Run: tar -xf jdk......tar and you'll
obtain that you wish.
Another way (if you have a RedHat distribution installed on your
machine) is to install the jdk rpm's from:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/jdk.....rpm ( RedHat <= 4.2)
or
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386/jdk....rpm ( RedHat >= 5.0)
Good luck,
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