Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:42:42 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "M. Goodell" <freebsdutah@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which Flavor Of Java? Message-ID: <ef10de9a050628144263f6de46@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050628181442.4555.qmail@web32405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050628181442.4555.qmail@web32405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 6/28/05, M. Goodell <freebsdutah@yahoo.com> wrote: > We are looking into installing Java / Tomcat and I have a couple of quest= ions before I proceed: >=20 > 1 - Which Java should I install from the /usr/ports/ directory? There is = "/usr/ports/jdk15" and there is "/usr/ports/linux-sun-jdk15". What is the d= ifference between the two and is one better than the other? >=20 You want jdk14. Java 5 is barely out of beta status and Sun provides absolutely no support for java on *BSD. You will have to jump through many hoops and red tape to get a native version of java installed on your system. If you want a basic install guide here is one I wrote after I finally got a working version of java installed on my system: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2004-10/0146.html
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