David Timms: >> Maybe, after a rpm -qa j\* Mark C. Allman: > I'm not sure what your question is. You now have Java installed. Why > are you trying to re-run rpm to install after the bin expanded the rpm > and installed it (via rpm)? "rpm -q" isn't installing something, it's a query about what's installed. "rpm -qa j\*" will do a query to list all RPMs that're installed that begin with the letter j (which presumes that a Java package does so). -- (This box runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.