Problem Installing JDK 1.6 in FreeBSD 7.0

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:05:37PM -0400, Fran?ois Gagnon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install JDK 1.6 in FreeBSD 7.0 and here's what's wrong:
> 
> I used the command:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/java/jdk16 && make install clean
> 
> and it told me to manually download 5 files and put them in 
> /usr/ports/distfiles/. The files where:
> 
> jdk-6u3-fcs-bin-b05-jrl-24_sep_2007.jar
> jdk-6u3-fcs-mozilla_headers-b05-unix-24_sep_2007.jar
> jdk-6u3-fcs-src-b05-jrl-24_sep_2007.jar
> tzupdater-1_3_0-2007h.zip
> bsd-jdk16-patches-3.tar.bz2

[...]
> Any ideas how to fix my problem ?

Update your ports tree. It's almost a year out of date. For more
details:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

Once you've updated your ports-tree, you can try re-running the jdk16
port.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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