Java

[Greg Larkin]

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Andrew Gould wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> 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.
|>
|> Best regards,
|> Greg
|> - --
|> Greg Larkin
|>  <http://www.sourcehosting.net/>
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|
| I just downloaded diablo-caffe for FreeBSD7 (i386) with similar results:
|
| # pkg_add diablo-caffe-freebsd7-i386-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2
| pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a
package?
|
| Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Ok, I'm doing the same now and will report back with my findings.

Dave, hold tight for a bit.

Best regards,
Greg
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Greg Larkin
http://www.sourcehosting.net/
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve
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