Steve, On Tuesday 18 October 2005 10:02, Steve Jacobs wrote:
I've just begun downloading the JRE 1.5 RPM from Sun, in order to install it to my Suse 9.1 machine. While it's downloading, I started looking at the installation instructions.
One of the first steps is to add the "x" permission to the downloaded file.
Presumably you chose the "Linux RPM in self-extracting file" download. Note the suffix of the downloaded is ".bin" (or, more specifically, ".rpm.bin"), not ".rpm". The file you're downloading is not the RPM. It's a small script with a large chunk of data appended. You run the script (necessitating the "chmod +x ..."), it shows you the license agreement and when you affirm your acceptance it unpacks the RPM payload. You don't actually have to execute the script, you can give the command "sh jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586-rpm.bin". To answer the question in the subject, the file's mode upon completion of the download is determined by the software that performs the download, but generally such software will not make downloads executable.
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Randall Schulz