missing operand error on chmod syntax

Asked by rj

i am downloading a jre.rpm file through the "Terminal" and the error popped:
by the way i am using Ubuntu 6.06.01 LTS

chmod: missing operand after 'a+xjre-6-linux-i586.rpm"

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Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said :
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Hello,

is there a fault because there is no space between a+ and xjre (if that is the packagename).
And for an installation of an rpm file i would do following:

open a gnome-terminal->sudo apt-get install allien->alien yourpackagename.rpm->dpkg -i yourpackagename.deb
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Mathias

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