Cool. Downloading anything from oracle sucks. It's as if they are actively trying to make people NOT buy their stuff.
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 3:25 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 12/31/18 3:03 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > From the JDK page: > > https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/development/jdk/ > > > > > ******************************************************************************* > > * YOU MUST AGREE TO ORACLE'S DOWNLOAD AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD > THE * > > * JDK BINARY PACKAGE FROM THEM. THIS MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO USE SOME > SORT OF * > > * WEB BROWSER, E.G. FIREFOX, TO DOWNLOAD IT. LINKS, WGET, ET AL WILL NOT > WORK * > > > > > ******************************************************************************* > > > > Oracle blocks direct downloads with a web interface. You cannot download > > their software directly, you gotta go through the JDK downloads area and > > agree to their EULA crap. This link will always be broken. So do the > thing > > you just said > > 1) Download the slackbuild build files "jdk.tar.gz" > > > > 2) Then instead of clicking the download link like all other packages, > > click on the project homepage link > > https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html > > > > And download the file from there. You are looking for > > jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz > > I've been to that page before, but it doesn't provide a clue as to where > to actually get the .tar.gz file. I finally thought to search on "oracle > jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz" which took me to this page: > > > https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html > > And there was the file, along with a simple radio button to accept the > license agreement. > > Now that I have all the prerequisites I am trying to run > libreoffice.SlackBuild. It hangs with the error message: > > ... well, it said it was hung, so I turned around to type this on the > other computer. When I turned back to get the text of the error message, > it was gone, and the process was continuing. It finished and I have > installed LibreOffice. It works. > > Thanks for the help. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug