10. chsum is actually cksum.

2). rpm -e kaffe should actually be rpm -e --nodeps kaffe. This is necsarry because certain mandrake wizards and openoffice may cause dependency errors with good reason. They require java to function at 100%.

3). export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01/bin

I didn't think that this would work.But to be on the safe side, the path should be created like this:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH

JAVA_HOME needs to be first as this will prevent any conflicts with other java packages (for those whom do development with java like myself).[COLOR=skyblue][COLOR=skyblue][COLOR=skyblue][COLOR=skyblue]

Great work and this lessons one instructional step for me to provide.

All that is left is tarball instructions.

altoine