[wplug] Really basic question...

[yankoc]

Thanks Mark,

It worked perfectly!

Chris

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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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