Linux Silent installation 1.5?

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sunny - 05 Feb 2006 02:10 GMT

Hi All,
I am new to the world of JAVA. To begin with thanks to all
for having this Group.
I am writing a shell script which installs jdk1.5 on my linux
machine. I am unable to find a rpm or bin file which installs in silent
mode. i mean which does not ask any question while installing. Can you
please help me in giving the source or the loaction were i can find the
bin or the rpm which installs jdk1.5 in silent mode.

jre1.5 installation will also do if jdk1.5 is not avialable.

Thanks In advance
Sanny

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ameyas7@yahoo.com - 05 Feb 2006 07:43 GMT

hi sunny,

what questions are you prompted for ?
if they are like locations and u'd like to give some std values,
then provide the location in some file and give that file as input for
your script.

HTH

amey

> Hi All,
> I am new to the world of JAVA. To begin with thanks to all
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Thanks In advance
> Sanny

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sunny - 05 Feb 2006 08:12 GMT

Hi Amey,
Thanks for the quick reply. The question is "Do you agree to
the agreement? [yes/no] " and i need to type "Yes". And the agreement
gets displayed on to STDOUT (which i can redirect that no probs) and i
have to press "space bar" to go to next page (more cmd on linux).
How do i get rid of this 2 issues so that i can install java 1.5 ?

Thanks
Sanny

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karlheinz klingbeil - 05 Feb 2006 11:01 GMT

sunny schrub am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2006 09:12
folgendes:

> Hi Amey,
> Thanks for the quick reply. The question
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> How do i get rid of this 2 issues so that i can
> install java 1.5 ?

The question is there for a reason. As a "java
installation" consists only of a single directory you
can always "install" java on your own machine, simply
zip this directory together and then unzip it silently
on another machine.
But this may be illegal in terms of the Sun licence or
otherwise, so please check this with sun before you
actually attempt it.

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Roedy Green - 05 Feb 2006 12:38 GMT

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:01:28 +0100, karlheinz klingbeil
<karlheinz-klingbeil@despammed.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>The question is there for a reason. As a "java
>installation" consists only of a single directory you
>can always "install" java on your own machine, simply
>zip this directory together and then unzip it silently
>on another machine.

If you do that, there are still dozens of registry entries not set up
and also the Java control panel.

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karlheinz klingbeil - 05 Feb 2006 13:46 GMT

Roedy Green schrub am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2006 13:38
folgendes:

> If you do that, there are still dozens of registry
> entries not set up and also the Java control panel.

<grin>I wrote about java installation on a decent OS,
not Windows</grin>

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karlheinz klingbeil - 05 Feb 2006 14:21 GMT

Roedy Green schrub am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2006 13:38
folgendes:

> If you do that, there are still dozens of registry
> entries not set up and also the Java control panel.

And by the way, even the OP asked about installation on
Linux, i'd like to know where there is a registry in
Linux ? ;))

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Roedy Green - 06 Feb 2006 01:35 GMT

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:21:54 +0100, karlheinz klingbeil
<karlheinz-klingbeil@despammed.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>And by the way, even the OP asked about installation on
>Linux, i'd like to know where there is a registry in
>Linux ? ;))

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/registry.html

The registry was tool designed to:

1. make it very difficult to move a application to another machine.
This was to discourage piracy and encourage people rebuying software
they already owned.

2. make the system as slow and unreliable as possible to encourage
purchasing upgrades with new copies of the OS.

Given that the Linux folk had no financial stake in those two goals,
they did not use a registry.

Installation is thus a robust process under Linux.

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James Westby - 05 Feb 2006 12:57 GMT

> Hi Amey,
> Thanks for the quick reply. The question is "Do you agree to
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Thanks
> Sanny

Is this what you're after?

http://expect.nist.gov/

James

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