Installing jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:23:31AM -0400, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> I am not real good with FreeBSD yet and am having problems installing 
> the jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz, built on one of my machines, on another.  When I 
> tried to do a pkg_add, it complained that it needed javavmwrapper-1.4 
> and urwfonts-1.0, but did not do a remote fetch.  So I installed 
> portupgrade, but it wants to rebuild the whole thing over again from the 
> Sun sources and patches.  I have put jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz in the 
> /usr/ports/distfiles directory.  But am not sure what the correct 
> command is.  I did not want to have to hand fetch each dependency and 
> rerun to find out the next dependency, ad nauseum.  Thank you for any help.

So either hand install java/javavmwrapper (very quick and easy) or
force the pkg_add with the -f flag.

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