need java

[KAYVEN RIESE]

i unzipped tarballs but i don't know what to do with them

kayve# uname -v
FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 #0: Sun Apr 17 09:23:46 UTC 2005 
root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
kayve#
ayve# rehash
kayve# ls
COPYRIGHT                       include
LICENSE                         jre
README.html                     lib
THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt     man
bin                             sample
demo                            src.zip
kayve# pwd
/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0
kayve# ls ..
+COMMENT
+CONTENTS
+DEINSTALL
+DESC
+INSTALL
+MTREE_DIRS
OpenOffice.org1.1.4
bin
diablo-caffe-freebsd6-i386-1.5.0_07-b00.tar.bz2
diablo-jdk-freebsd5.i386.1.5.0.07.00.tbz
diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00.tbz
diablo-jdk1.5.0
diablo-jdk1.5.0_07
diablo-jre-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00.tbz
diablo-jre1.5.0
diablo-jre1.5.0_07
diablo-latte-freebsd6-i386-1.5.0_07-b00.tar.bz2
etc
include
info
jdk-1_5_0-bin-scsl.zip
lib
libdata
libexec
man
portsnap
sbin
share
www
kayve#

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Greg Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:00:47AM -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>> i just need to have a java compiler to do my
>> assignments for distributed systems.
>
> You don't even need ports to do that.  Just download the Diablo JDK package
> from the FreeBSD Foundation's website.
>
>> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Scot Hetzel wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/6/06, KAYVEN RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> my ports directory is gone.  how'd that happen?
>>>>
>>> What were you doing before it disapeared?
>>>
>>> There are several ways to make /usr/ports disapear:
>>>
>>> 1. rm -rf /usr/ports/*
>>> 2. cvs update -R RELENG_6
>>> 3. cvsup with an branch tag in the supfile for ports.
>>>
>>> Problem 2 & 3 are similar, as the ports tree is not branched.  This
>>> causes cvs or cvsup to delete the ports since there is no branch with
>>> that tag (i.e. RELENG_6).  Instead you need to specify a release tag
>>> (i.e. RELEASE_6_1_0) or no tag (gets you the latest ports changes).
>>>
>>> If your using cvsup, post your supfile and someone will help you fix it.
>>>
>>> Scot
>>> --
>>> DISCLAIMER:
>>> No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
>>>
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