Sorry... newbie

[Danny Pansters]

I'd like to add that though it takes (quite) long to build and install the jdk 
(and maybe if you're on a modem also downloading can take a while), it does 
work very well. I use it primarily with konqueror for applets and well it 
just works (with all the usual quirks as on linux -- say cut and paste...) 
and though not really rocketing it's fast enough. I'm pretty sure that server 
side it works a lot better (as it seems to do on every OS).

Dan

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 22:53, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:20 pm, Armando Richard wrote:
> > Hope find at least 1 patient person to answer this...
> >
> > I'm used to operate well systems in Linux and "R"windows and trying
> > from 2 days FreeBSD..
> >
> > I've very very very novice questions and couldn't find any help in
> > literature i've been read (from more than a week). Also this is the
> > forum looking more like...
> >
> > there is anybody who can give some directions??
> >
> > - for now my main doubt is in java virtual machine:
> >
> > 	-- sources links that points to nowhere.
> > 	-- ports descriptions saying only about what i will get after.
> > 	-- messages like that in my terminal:
> >
> > # cd '/usr/ports/java/jdk13'
> > # ls
> > Makefile        files           pkg-message     scripts
> > distinfo        pkg-descr       pkg-plist
> > # make
> > printf: missing format character
> > ===>  jdk-1.3.1p9_4 is*** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk13.
> > # pkg_add jdk13
> > pkg_add: can't stat package file 'jdk13'
> > # pkg_add jdk-1.3
> > pkg_add: can't stat package file 'jdk-1.3'
> > # pkg_add jdk
> > pkg_add: can't stat package file 'jdk'
> > #
> >
> > or
> >
> > # pkg_add -r jdk
> > Error: FTP Unable to get
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Lat
> >est/jdk.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> > pkg_add: unable to fetch
> > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/La
> >test/jdk.tbz' by URL
> > # pkg_add -r jdk13
> > Error: FTP Unable to get
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Lat
> >est/jdk13.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> > pkg_add: unable to fetch
> > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/La
> >test/jdk13.tbz' by URL
> > #
> >
> > 	-- nothing about development kits and thousands of tools, just a
> > simple plugin in my browser (mozilla, can be other if it isn't good)
> > wich works.
> >
> > Sorry if i bore you, just loosed.. my last chance is here...
> >
> > tx
>
> You're confusing the process of installing ports from binary packages
> vs. source code.  pkg_add is used to install binary packages.  Binary
> packages are not available for Java for FreeBSD 5*.  You'll have to
> build java from source code.  Since FreeBSD is not allowed to
> distribute the source code, you'll have to download the source code
> manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/.  Then go back to your ports
> directory and install the port:
>
>      cd /usr/ports/java/jdk13/
>      make install
>
> If you haven't downloaded the source code, the installation process will
> stop and tell you where to get the appropriate files.
>
> You can get more information regarding Java on FreeBSD from:
> http://www.freebsd.org/java/
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Andrew Gould
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