From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 5:25:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE0C37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 05:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECCE43E65 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 05:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id AE9634FC99; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:24:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AAC4A0E; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:24:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:24:30 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk In-Reply-To: <20020929183048.T8434-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:33:50 -0400 (EDT) > From: Peter Leftwich > To: FreeBSD LIST > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message