Java

Dave dfeustel at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 22 18:57:21 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:49:50PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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>Dave wrote:
>| On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:43:47PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
>|> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
>|>> I read in _Absolute FreeBSD_ that there is now an easy-to-install Java
>|>> package for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0, but I have so far not found this
>|>> package. Does it exist?
>|> Yes. These packages are created. licensed and maintained by the FreeBSD
>|> Foundation. See this link:
>|>
>|> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
>|>
>|> JN
>|
>| OK. I visited the link and  downloaded the JDK and JRE for Freebsd 7, but
>| pkg_add fails, saying it cannot decode the CONTENTS file. I ran
>bunzip2 to get
>| tar files, but pkg_add fails with the tar file too. What's the proper
>way to
>| pkg_add these two files to get a working Java system?
>|
>| Thanks.
>
>Hi Dave,
>
>Can you post the exact output from pkg_add when it fails to install the
>files your downloaded?  That will probably help me or someone else here
>troubleshoot the problem.

Sure thing. But should I be pkg_add'ing the bz2 file or the tar file?
If the bz2 file, I will have to download it again since it disappears when
the tar file is recreated.




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