Installing jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz
Frederick N. Brier
fbrier at multideck.com
Thu Aug 5 16:10:59 PDT 2004
Thank you Ean and Greg. Wow, that was easy. Now off to get James and
JBoss/Jetty running in their own jails...
Fred.
Ean Kingston wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> What (I think) you want to do is:
> pkg_add -r javavmwrapper-1.4 # Fetch remotely along with dependencies
> pkg_add -r urwfonts-1.0 # same as above but the other package
> pkg_add jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz # install from local copy
>
> That way you don't have to worry about fetching all the dependencies
> for the stuff you fetch remotely.
>
>> 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.
>
>
> You can tell portupgrade to prefer packages to ports (but I forget the
> specific command line). See the man page for portupgrade if you want
> to try this.
>
> I don't really like portupgrade. It seams to destablalize my system
> too much. I prefer cvssup and packages/ports.
>
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