Running a 32-bit JVM on an x86-64 arch

[plegault]

Hi,

I have a dual Opteron on which I'd like to run a 32-bit version of the Sun 1.4.2 JVM... I've been trying to install their 32-bit "bin" file (obtained from their site) but I get the following error:

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tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.
./j2sdk-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.bin: line 325: [: -lt: unary operator expected
Unpacking...
tail: cannot open `+473' for reading: No such file or directory
Checksumming...
1
The download file appears to be corrupted. Please refer
to the Troubleshooting section of the Installation
Instructions on the download page for more information.
Please do not attempt to install this archive file.
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Anybody know what this is about?

Thanks,
Phil

[sancho]

i encoutered that problem a couple weeks ago. at some point the coreutils version of "tail" changed its behavior to become POSIX compliant. and tail -n no longer works, but sun's build scripts still use it.

i can't remember exactly how i solved this. but what you can do is read the tail man page, and figure out how to tail the last line from the sun .bin file to a new file. make that file executable, and then run it.

the drawback is you don't get the checksum detection and interactive license acknowledgement build into the .bin file.

if this is not descriptive enough, let me know.

cheers