Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Dave <dfeustel@mindspring.com> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java Message-ID: <20080722174937.B5EE98FC0C@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200807221243.47267.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:43:47PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: >On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm dfeustel@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.
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