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" -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
