-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> 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. |> |> Best regards, |> Greg |> - -- |> Greg Larkin |> <http://www.sourcehosting.net/> | | | I just downloaded diablo-caffe for FreeBSD7 (i386) with similar results: | | # pkg_add diablo-caffe-freebsd7-i386-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 | pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a package? | | Andrew
Ok, I finally see what's going on here. The web page reads: Packages ~ --Available Soon Tarballs ~ These Tarballs were used to generate the packages. They are useful if you don't use packages or as distribution files for the diablo ports. All you are downloading is a tarball that can be extracted directly into /usr/local. Once the packages are available, they will be posted to the page, and you'll be able to use pkg_add to manage them. This is the fully fleshed-out page for Java 5: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java15.shtml Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.sourcehosting.net/ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIhjWC0sRouByUApARAnwiAJoDrsqQyBT6pq81oCOHIgyhzpiJvgCfY//E 1yrnEXix6mvwowY7kpSJgzE= =5CpK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
