Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:53:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, pryan@singnet.com.sg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openoffice install and java JRE on 4.10 Message-ID: <20040720155357.48911.qmail@web51610.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44fz7mrgk9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Peter, JRE is the acronym for Java Runtime Environment. Because java is an interpreted language, a java program needs an interpreter to be able to translate a java program into a machine readable form. Perhaps some of the openoffice.org's functionality were develop using java, maybe that's the reason why it needs a Java Runtime Environment. If you need to know more about Java, try visiting http://sun.java.com Java has already been ported to FreeBSD. You can find one here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/DL/28994/DL Download the one that looks like this: diablo-jre-1.3.1.0.tgz At this very moment while I'm sending this to you, I'm still completing the download of openoffice.org-1.1.2. I've already downloaded jre but still haven't tried it yet. Best of luck -jay __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/
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