[ale] Re: Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

Correction:  All references to "less" should have been "tail".  RHEL 3
has a broken tail ;-)

--mdh

On 5/24/05, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>