Java in FreeBSD 7.0

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Dale wrote:
> Reference my thread dated on Wed Apr  9 with same title ...
> 
> I now have Java Plugin Diablo-1.5.0-b01 (Java(TM) Plugin 1.5.0) this 
> information is from about:plugins  ...
> 
> when the install was done these two errors appeared at the end of the 
> install ..
> 
> pkg_add: warning: package "diablo-jre-1.5.0.07-01" requires 
> "xorg-libraries-6.9.0", but "xorg-libraries-7.3_1" is installed
> 
> pkg_add: warning: package "diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01 requires 
> "javavmwrapper-2.0_6", but "javavmwrapper-2.3" is installed
> 
> The Java pkg I downloaded was obtained from the  FreeBSD Foundation web 
> site and is  pkg ..  jre 1.5.0-7
> 
> The problem I am experiencing is that on the two web sites I have tried 
> to access where Java is needed .. only allow a partial completion to the 
> final web page ..  so  in effect  I cannot get to the end result ... 
> which is being able to use the desired web site ..
> 
> are these 2 pkgs the cause for this  or  .. do I need to look 
> elsewhere   ???

This isn't going to work.  You can't load a 6.x shared library (the Java
plugin) in your 7.x application (Firefox).  If you want to plugin to
work you'll have to compile th ejdk15 or jdk16 ports.

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