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OK n00bz...listen up

The downloaded file is a gzipped tar (.tar.gz) archive. It's just a different kinda zipfile...it uses a different process for storing and compressing data, but conceptually they're similar.

I don't have a utility on my N900 to open these yet, so I downloaded it onto my PC. I run Fedora linux, which automatically fires up an archive manager when I dbl-click the file. There are free Windows utilities to handle these files too (try tucows.com).

When you expand (extract, inflate...whatever) this file, it will create a folder called "ejre1.6.0_10" and neatly store all the java software within.

All you need to do is use the "scp" command (Secure CoPy via SSH) with the "-r" option to recursively copy the folder and all its contents to your N900.

You'll need your N900s IP address - there's a very handy little widget for that (thanks to whoever made it!)

example:

scp -r ejre1.6.0_10 root@my.n900.ip.addr:/home/opt/java

(you'll need to create that java folder on your N900 first - go to xterm, use "sudo gainroot" and then type "mkdir /home/opt/java")

Once you get this far, we'll continue the lesson
 

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