[ale] Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

Has anyone tried this lately?  Sun ships an executable shell script
that extracts an RPM from itself, then you are supposed to install the
RPM.  Unfortunately, RHEL3 has a broken version of less which doesn't
accept the -1 or +511 parameters, so the shell script broke.  (These
are deprecated switches that RH in its wisdom decided to remove, thus
breaking lots of old shell scripts.)

I was able to figure out the script and extracted the RPM by hand, but
the RPM itself has a shell script the uses "less -1" and it wouldn't
install.

I have found no reference to this on google.  Can it really be that no
one else has this problem?

Michael