jdk15 without having to install X Windows?

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Wed Oct 26 07:04:00 PDT 2005


Nick Triantos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install JDK15 (from ports: java/jdk15) on a server that 
> does not have X Windows installed.  It appears from the Makefile that 
> Java is dependent upon OpenMotif, which in turn is dependent upon a 
> bunch of X client libs.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with installing Java without any X windows 
> support?  I'd like the keep the number of installed packages on this 
> server to a bare minimum.
> 
> thanks,
> -Nick
> 

My guess?  You probably can't install JDK without X because of Java's 
GUI libraries (swing/awt).

Micah


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