Java

[Greg Larkin]

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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
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Greg Larkin
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