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Dave wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:49:50PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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|> Dave wrote:
|> | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:43:47PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
|> |> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
|
|
Hi Dave,
You want to pkg_add the .bz2 file. Re-download it, and place it
somewhere like ${HOME}/packages. Then run:
pkg_add -v ${HOME}/packages/<PKGNAME>.bz2
The "-v" flag enables verbose messages, so reply with all of the command
output.
I don't know why the .bz2 file would disappear - I don't think it
should, in general. I use pkg_add a lot and haven't seen that. Once
you forward the pkg_add output, we should be able to figure out what's
going on pretty quickly.
Best regards,
Greg
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Greg Larkin
http://www.sourcehosting.net/
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve
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