Problem with JRE install

[marioland]

trying to update the JRE on a slackware system and I am using the rpm pkg.

rpm -ivf *.rpm leaves me with Failed Dependencies:

/bin/basename
/bin/cat
/bin/cp
/bin/gawk
/bin/grep
and so on ... all end with "is needed by (java pkg)

I've checked and they are there

anyone have any possible solutions to this ?

Cheers

**latest slackware 12**

[aliov]

Non of the rpm packages will install in your system since they will look at the standard RPM log files and they will find nothing installed .

So the best way if you want to install a rpm package in your Slackware it's to convert it to tgz and after install it

rpm2tgz *.rpm
installpkg *.tgz

i don't recommand this solution , but i have some packages installed like this and they are working perfect (mainly games).

but always look at the standard packages compiled for Slackware , you can download them from LinuxPackages: View

Regards.

[marioland]

I had a feeling it had to do with that but thanks for the confirmation.

[m4dman]

i am having the same problem though i did upgradepkg --reinstall jre-6u1-i586-1.tgz
and firefox plugin still isnt working . any help would be great

[aliov]

Wish plugins of mozilla is failing ? have a look to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and see if you have the correct java symlinc to the correct plugins