On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:44 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 12:15, Jay Cliburn wrote: > >On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:05 -0400, Marc M wrote: > >> I am having trouble getting my java plugin to work properly. I am > >> trying to run a cbt on a training website and firefox sends me to > >> the java site for the plugin. I have downloaded the rpm.bin file, > >> run the script, chmodded the rpm to 777, and I still get the > >> following. > >> > >> Does anyone have any good updated yum locations where I can just > >> grab a good file with some updated repo's, that are likely to fix > >> all of these dependencies? > > > >Assuming you're running 32-bit FC5, go here for instructions. > > > >http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Java > > Trying to set this up as a (gasp) user, I'm sort of following along with > the idea being that I don't have to run as root, AND at some point I'll > get the java plugin working with firefox. > > Failing rather miserably at the bottom of that documents page 7. As > root, or su -, doesn't make any diff: > [root@diablo plugins]# rpm -ivh > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo > Retrieving http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo > error: open of <!DOCTYPE failed: No such file or directory > error: open of HTML failed: No such file or directory > error: open of PUBLIC failed: No such file or directory It would appear you have downloaded an HTML file instead of the plain text freshrpms.repo file. It would appear that you have a broken URL: $ curl http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>The requested URL /pub/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms.repo was not found on this server.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.2 (Unix) Server at ftp.freshrpms.net Port 80</address> </body></html> Paul.
