Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Dave <dfeustel@mindspring.com> To: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java Message-ID: <20080722185721.7AB4B8FC1F@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <48862BCE.7080003@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:49:50PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Dave wrote: >| 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. > >Hi Dave, > >Can you post the exact output from pkg_add when it fails to install the >files your downloaded? That will probably help me or someone else here >troubleshoot the problem. Sure thing. But should I be pkg_add'ing the bz2 file or the tar file? If the bz2 file, I will have to download it again since it disappears when the tar file is recreated.
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