Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:54:52 -0700 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Steve Strassmann <steve@strassmann.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble getting and installing FreeBSD-Java (2) Message-ID: <20070813175452.GA74143@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20070813112406.0475e3f0@qs1473.pair.com> References: <p06240802c2e3a9d9e8ee@[192.168.102.103]> <20070813172021.50f1440c@localhost> <p06240806c2e5fbd11f15@[192.168.102.103]> <20070813233051.75256cd7@localhost> <6.2.3.4.2.20070813112406.0475e3f0@qs1473.pair.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
G'day Steve, I replied to an earlier email privately. Let me know if you didn't get that reply. On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:34:55AM -0400, Steve Strassmann wrote: > At 09:30 AM 8/13/2007, you wrote: > >> Since I am on a FreeBSD machine hosted (and managed) by pair.com, > >I don't have > >> sudo, and I am not an expert on FreeBSD. > > > >have you got access to root at all? is this is a "virtual server" > >you have with Pair, or a shared hosting account? > > It is a 'virtual server', so it's not shared, but they still don't > give me root or sudo privileges. > They maintain the core in heavily standardized way so there's no > chance to upgrade > to a post-4.8 FreeBSD. The Diablo packages you're attempting to install won't work. They were built for FreeBSD 5.x and simply won't work on FreeBSD 4.x (no operating system can be "future compatible"). Your options are very limited on such an old version of FreeBSD. If you can manage to get a new enough version of Linux emulation working well enough you may be able to run the Linux JDK. Once you've done that you may be able to manually compile a native JDK since that version of FreeBSD is notionally supported by the latest patchset (although noone has tested it on anything older than 4.11). Not being able to use the ports system or upgrade the version of FreeBSD being used really forces you into a difficult situation for Java support. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070813175452.GA74143>