[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem installing PCB

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 11:37, terry wrote:
> Alton R. Pouncey, II wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:50, Steve Baker wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>terry wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Have downloaded 'setup_imake.jar' but don't have jar archiving tool to 
> >>>unpack it.  I've yet to find jar.                              ..... Any 
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Aren't '.jar' files just '.tar'ed JAVA files?   I think you can unpack them
> >>with 'tar'...what you do after that, I have no idea.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >.jar files don't quite work that way.  They are Java archive files and
> >can be executed as is.  You need Java installed. From the java man page:
> >
> >java [ options ] -jar file.jar
> >
> >simply doing:
> >
> >#java -jar setup_imake.jar
> >
> >will work.  This executes the code in the archive file
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I'm quite suprised that your distro didn't come with imake already setup.
> >>
> >>Can't you find a '.rpm' or something?
> >>
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> Found imake rpm but was unable to install:
> ==========================================
> # rpm -ivhf imake-4.2.1-8.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
> file /usr/X11R6/man/man1/makedepend.1x.gz from install of imake-4.2.1-8 
> conflicts with file from package XFree86-4.2.0-8
> [root at laptop rcv]# uname -a
> Linux laptop.workgroup.linux 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:31:07 EDT 2002 
> i586 unknown
> =============================================================
> Tried java -jar but still no luck:
> ==============================================================
> ]# java -jar setup_imake.jar
> bash: java: command not found
> ============================================================
> 

Is java installed on your system?  Is so, is it in your PATH?  If it
isn't on your system, go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html
and grab it.  You want the JRE.  

Hope this helps,
Alton
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