Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!j37g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: JDK rpm bin is fuggered - thanks Oracle Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.89.33.208 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1310917972 5967 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2011 15:52:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j37g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.89.33.208; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.56 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:876 Anonymous wrote: > I went to Owreckall's java website [sic] to get an RPM for linux > For 32-bit there were 2 choices: an executable that installs > JDK and a self-extracting RPM. I wanted this, so I could > then use the RPM on multiple (identical) PCs with Centos > installed. > But when I run this rpm.bin file, it installs as well. > So there is no difference whatever you download. > a Your subject line suggest that this behavior is "fuggered" (presumably a portmanteau of "fucked" and "buggered"). How did what Oracle provided fail to meet your needs? A self-extracting archive binary such as the one you downloaded is typically an executable that extracts and runs. This is a convenience for most. It is the designed behavior. You can use it on multiple (identical) PCs with Centos installed just fine, so it should suit your purposes. That is neither fucked nor buggered. You might find an extrinsic unpacker would explode the self-extracting RPM into its constituents somewhere in your "/bin/" or "/usr/bin/" trees. -- Lew