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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:24:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209300820001.5563-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020929183048.T8434-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:33:50 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk
> 
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, John Bleichert wrote:
> > > RE: http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html
> > > The first step is to cd /usr/ports/java/jdk -- what if I have no files and
> > > directories in there?  How do I portupgrade or populate in one command?
> > I just did the JDK install 2 nights ago, but opted for
> > /usr/ports/java/jdk13 - is that port directory populated? If your ports
> > tree is installed, why aren't there files in the 'jdk' dir?
> 
> Bless you!  Well what I ended up doing was running /stand/sysinstall and
> downloading the entire ports tree (about 30mb or so?)  It took me a few
> times but then I noticed that /java/jdk is version 1.1.8 - also, make, make
> install then make clean seemed to work fine but my various attempts with my
> various browsers proved java'less!  :(
> 
> > Strange. Also, the /usr/ports/java/jdk witll install version 1.1.8 - is
> > that really what you want?
> > #  John Bleichert
> > #  http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg
> 
> Actually, what I'd like at this point is a way to just populate one folder:
> /usr/ports/java/jdk13 -- is there a single command line method to do so?
> 
> Also, once make has run, are there steps to configure in my browser? Thx,
> 

You need to make a link to the jre libs. I'm not in front of my BSD box so 
I can' give you the full path, but you need to make a symbolic link in 
~/.mozilla/plugins to the library in the ns610 directory under the JRE dir 
in your jdk install. Just poke around in there, you'll find it.

JB


#  John Bleichert 
#  http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg


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