Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:28:26 -0500 From: Chris <chris@tourneyland.net> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: How to install collections port? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000827122826.008887a0@mail.tourneyland.net>
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Hi all, I just tried to install the collections port. Here's what happened: bash-2.04# cd /usr/ports/java/collections bash-2.04# make ===> collections-1.1 You must manually fetch the distribution from http://java. sun.com/beans/infobus/index.html and place it in /usr/ports/distfiles then run m ake again. Okay, so I went to the URL. It's the home page for Infobus, which means it has a bunch of general information and doesn't have anything like "To install the FreeBSD collections port, Go Here". It does have a link (well a button, to be precise) to download the "JDK1.1 Collections package", but that turns out to be a zip file. I've never really used gunzip, but when I gave it the .zip file it complained about an unknown extension. I'm assuming that all that's in there are a bunch of .class files (or maybe some .jar's), and so at worst I could unzip them on a Windows machine and copy them over. And I'm sure there's also either a well-known utility or gunzip flag to handle zip's that I, being pretty ignorant about day-to-day Unix stuff, should know about but don't. But that doesn't seem so great. Am I in the wrong place? If not, isn't it odd that Sun offers only a .zip of something, and no tar/gz? And why would there be a port that required me to manually download files? Querulous, Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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