On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:33:50 -0400 (EDT) > From: Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: FreeBSD LIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk > > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > > > RE: http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html > > > The first step is to cd /usr/ports/java/jdk -- what if I have no files and > > > directories in there? How do I portupgrade or populate in one command? > > I just did the JDK install 2 nights ago, but opted for > > /usr/ports/java/jdk13 - is that port directory populated? If your ports > > tree is installed, why aren't there files in the 'jdk' dir? > > Bless you! Well what I ended up doing was running /stand/sysinstall and > downloading the entire ports tree (about 30mb or so?) It took me a few > times but then I noticed that /java/jdk is version 1.1.8 - also, make, make > install then make clean seemed to work fine but my various attempts with my > various browsers proved java'less! :( > > > Strange. Also, the /usr/ports/java/jdk witll install version 1.1.8 - is > > that really what you want? > > # John Bleichert > > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > Actually, what I'd like at this point is a way to just populate one folder: > /usr/ports/java/jdk13 -- is there a single command line method to do so? > > Also, once make has run, are there steps to configure in my browser? Thx, >
You need to make a link to the jre libs. I'm not in front of my BSD box so I can' give you the full path, but you need to make a symbolic link in ~/.mozilla/plugins to the library in the ns610 directory under the JRE dir in your jdk install. Just poke around in there, you'll find it. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
