Author: toad Date: 2008-07-29 17:44:48 +0000 (Tue, 29 Jul 2008) New Revision: 21485
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php Log: Add FAQ w.r.t. installing problems on openjdk Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2008-07-29 17:12:52 UTC (rev 21484) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2008-07-29 17:44:48 UTC (rev 21485) @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ </li><li><a href="#why-java">Why is Freenet implemented in Java?</a> </li><li><a href="#fproxy-lan">How do I allow connections to FProxy from other computers?</a> +</li><li><a href="#openjdk">The installer breaks downloading files and I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and/or OpenJDK</a> </li><li><a href="#fec">What is FEC?</a> </li><li><a href="#healing">What is healing?</a> </li><li><a href="#heisenbug">What is a Heisenbug?</a> @@ -310,6 +311,15 @@ </code> </p> +<p><b id="openjdk">Problems installing with OpenJDK</b><br> +<p>Some versions of OpenJDK, particularly the one included with Ubuntu 8.04, +have some problems with SSL which cause the installer to fail. Please install +the Sun JRE, at least version 5:</p> +<pre> +apt-get install sun-java5-jre +update-alternatives --config java +</pre> + <p><b id="fec">What is FEC?</b><br> FEC stands for Forward Error Correction. When large files are inserted into Freenet, they are split into many small blocks -- this is called a <i>splitfile</i>. FEC adds redundant check blocks to a splitfile, so that if some of the
