[wplug] Really basic question...

[Mark Allen Adams, Jr.]

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> New to Linux but familiar with MacOS. I want to do Java development on
> Linux so I downloaded the SDK from Sun¹s website.. The resulting file is an
> *RPM.bin file. How do I uncompress it to install the package? (On a Mac I¹d
> use stuffit expander for binary compression)

Having just done this with Java last week, I'll tell you.

Go to a shell, "cd" (change directory) to wherever the file is.  Execute 
"chmod +x (whatever the file is).bin", then "./(file).bin"  It'll 
self-extract, then you can install it with "rpm -ivh (file).rpm" when it 
extracts an RPM.

Assuming, that is, that your distro is RPM-based.

 - maa2

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