Java

[Andrew Gould]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> Andrew Gould wrote:
> | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org>
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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
> |> - --
> |> Greg Larkin
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> |
> |
> | I just downloaded diablo-caffe for FreeBSD7 (i386) with similar results:
> |
> | # pkg_add diablo-caffe-freebsd7-i386-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2
> | pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a
> package?
> |
> | Andrew
>
> Ok, I finally see what's going on here.  The web page reads:
>
> Packages
>
> ~    --Available Soon
>
> Tarballs
>
> ~    These Tarballs were used to generate the packages. They are useful
> if you don't use packages or as distribution files for the diablo ports.
>
>
> All you are downloading is a tarball that can be extracted directly into
> /usr/local.  Once the packages are available, they will be posted to the
> page, and you'll be able to use pkg_add to manage them.
>
> This is the fully fleshed-out page for Java 5:
> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java15.shtml
>
> Hope that helps,
> Greg
>

Oops.  Sorry for the fuss.

Thanks,

Andrew