Installing RPMs
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Sat Oct 2 14:27:31 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Anthony Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I decided to upgrade from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 just over two
> months ago. I have tried to install various RPMs with no success. For
> example, if I double click j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm, I get "?
> There is no action associated with j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm."
> The file-roller is not activated.
>
> If I go to the command line, become super user, change to the
> appropriate directory, I type rpm j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm and
> hit enter; an installation process appears to be occurring. I type rpm
> -q j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm. I am told that it is not installed.
>
> How do I diagnose the problem? How do I remedy the situation?
>
> I am a newbie who recently converted to Linux from Windows.
Try "rpm -ivh j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm"
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