How to install .bin files

[oliver79]

Hi all:

Just wondering if someone could help me with the following: I’m a total newbie to Linux so please forgive ineptitude, however I have come to want to start learning the Java syntax on a Debain Linux platform, thus I have started looking into using Eclipse and BeanShell. Now the problem I have is that I need to install JDK, now when I have downloaded this file it is in a .bin file format! Well none of the books I have tell you how to deal with and install such a file? At the moment I simply used to using synaptics package manager! Can anyone give any further guidance and/or how to install such a file?

Many thanks

Oliver

[nature]

do a ./xxxx.bin
i think it should be a self extracting binary file
thanks

[Javasnob]

And don't forget to chmod 755 the file before you do that; I've had trouble in the past because I forgot to do this!

[oliver79]

Hi:

Thanks for that. Now do I need to drop this file into root folder? Then perform the./xxx.bin?

p.s. what is: chmod 755? and how would I go about that?

Thanks

Oliver

[antidrugue]

p.s. what is: chmod 755? and how would I go about that?

man chmod

for more.

To install Java on a Debian system, just follow those instructions :
http://technowizah.com/2005/12/debia...suns-java.html

[oliver79]

Ok, just had a quick look at that, thanks!

One question mind, is it simply a case of downloading the bin file and leaving it on your desktop? Or do I have to drop it into a specific folder, then run the commands - sudo apt-get install fakeroot java-package? The .bin file also tells me that if I choose to save it, it will become corrupt!

Thanks

Oliver

[nature]

you can run the command sudo apt-get install.... from the command line(anywhere)
If you wanna install JDK as debian package also look at
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142

But to run fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin
be sure to run from the desktop where you have downloaded it (or you can give the path of the file too)
cheers

[oliver79]

Hi:

None of that appears to work! The following:

apt-get install fakeroot java-package

simply results in the return: no java-package could be found

Any other suggestions?

Oliver

p.s. some of the commands are also not recognized i.e. dpkg!

[oliver79]

p.s. on top of that, can anyone advise me on where I should put such a file as I simply downloaded j2sdk1.4 ....... onto my desktop! Then how to navigate through shell to that location?

Many thanks

Oliver

[antidrugue]

Are you log as root to install packages and use "dpkg" ?

What is the content of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Which version of Debian are you using?