rpm in kubuntu

[esogos]

Hello,

I've been trying to install jdk 1.6 in my pc, but the instalationg always stops. I have downloaded jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin. I excecute the command ./jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin and I see in the output the following lines:

...
./jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin: 408: rpm: not found

Done.

I tried to find somewhere rpm, but I couldn't.
Please help me! I really need to have jdk 6 immediately

Thanks in advance.

[penguin.ch]

Re: rpm in kubuntu

In short, RPM packages are for Red Had et al. - while Debian and it's offspring favour DEB ones. Therefore, you should try to find packages formatted "the Debian way" (which in your case is supposed to be no problem at all) - and only for last resort try to convert the package in question by means of alien.

HTH
Birdy

[admiral_pro]

Re: rpm in kubuntu

try searching adept first. make sure you have multiverse and/or universe enabled. also in a konsole, you can type apt-cache search <foo> to look for any package (replace <foo> with a package name like firefox.

[esogos]

Re: rpm in kubuntu

Thanks a lot for your help!