On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Matt Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I really just do not get what on earth it thinks I'm doing wrong > here, trying to install java firstly the ebuild in portage it appears is > too old, it wants me to fetch a copy of 7u15 from a page that now only > has 7u17 on it so fail there no problem just update it surely can't be > that hard err right so created an up to date copy of the ebuild in my > overlay directory except it wont create the manifest repeatedly tells me > to put the file jre-7u17-linux-x64.tar.gz in /usr/portage/distfiles, > great ok so...
Like Alan said you should "emerge --sync" and portage has an u17 ebuild. Otherwise Oracle lets you download old versions from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/archive-139210.html
