On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:03:17PM -0300, John Nietzsche wrote: >> i would like to add support for java on my 4.3 openbsd desktop. Has >> anybody already done so? May you point a url where i could download >> the package(s) from? > > As the previous posters have pointed out, there are no JDK binary > packages available for OpenBSD 4.3--you have to fetch and build the JDK > from source yourself. But in OpenBSD 4.4 (which will be released in > November), that situation will change, and binary packages for Java will > be available. See > http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080321023803
Installing JDK manually is a royal pain at the moment. Clicking all those websites, accepting license agreements, downloading and then compiling the whole thing _does_ take hours. It would be really awesome to have Java available as package as of 4.4!
