Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

[tazmun]

----- Original Message ----- From: tazmun To: Franki Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun Thanks all for your suggestions on this installation.  By changing permissions and using midnight commander I was able to get it installed. Now all I have to do is get Star office to recognise it.  considering reinstalling star office hoping it will see the environment.....so far no go.  Every step with Linux is a struggle, but I hope it pays off.  I'm hoping 8.0 will be an improvement as far as user friendliness.  Plan to buy that as soon as it comes out in the stores.  Can anyone tell me if the downloads for 8.0 have as much of the extra software included as the official released version that is for sale? ----- Original Message ----- From: Franki To: tazmun Cc: Rules Address for MDK Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 3:08 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun type in mc at the command line, (you need to have midnight comander installed, but you probably do anyway) That will ring up a lovely blue screen you can navigate around in,, (self explanitory when you see it..) go to where your rpm is,, then highlight in in MC  (again, self explanitory when you see it.) and press enter... you will go into the rpm where you can see two options, upgrade and install, choose the one you want, highlight it and press enter,, it will then install or upgrade it for you... Thats they way I did things before getting more familiar with things myself... I think mc is a very underrated tool considering what it adds to the console.... regards   -----Original Message-----   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tazmun   Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 2:18 PM   To: newbie   Subject: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun   Hi All   I am very new to Linux and the command line is very intimidating yet.  I have downloaded a supposedly self extracting file (.bin) as well as the rpm version of the file.  They suggest in the install directions that this be done from the command line and tell you that by using a command(./) on both of the files will start a script asking if you agree to their agreement first.  This command on either file just gets me a permission denied error whether I'm logged on as a user or as root.  This file is to install the runtime java enviroment required by Staroffice for any java applications to function.  The file will not run in kpackage in the rpm version either......if you try to execute it it will error and say  is it not executeable.  I am running Mandrake 7.1 for now.  I've also tried the rpm -ivh and -iv commands to no avail either.....help please.....I hate the Redmond gang but this is driving me nuts too!!   Anyone helping here please assume I know nothing of the command line in their directions.   Tazmun