[lug] Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[Hugh Brown]

I have installed the j2se 1.4.2 and 1.5 rpm's on RHEL3.

Which j2se are you trying to install?

Have you aliased less to something else?

Hugh

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> Has anyone tried this lately?  Sun ships an executable shell script
> that extracts an RPM from itself, then you are supposed to install the
> RPM.  Unfortunately, RHEL3 has a broken version of less which doesn't
> accept the -1 or +511 parameters, so the shell script broke.  (These
> are deprecated switches that RH in its wisdom decided to remove, thus
> breaking lots of old shell scripts.)
>
> I was able to figure out the script and extracted the RPM by hand, but
> the RPM itself has a shell script the uses "less -1" and it wouldn't
> install.
>
> I have found no reference to this on google.  Can it really be that no
> one else has this problem?
>
> Michael
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