From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 02:42:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C42E16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9229A43D53 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (FreeBSD 4.9)) id 1B1Ne7-0001xD-M6 by authid ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:42:35 +0300 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:42:35 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20040311104235.GC95376@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Gary Kline , peter lageotakes , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20040311040150.GA14768@tao.thought.org> <20040311065923.59318.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> <20040311082733.GA43329@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040311082733.GA43329@tao.thought.org> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.5.1i (2003-11-05) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: peter lageotakes cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: openoffice and java on 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:42:43 -0000 * Gary Kline [20040311 11:29]: wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:59:23PM -0800, peter lageotakes wrote: > > > [ .. ] > > > > Hello, > > I believe that Sun's Java doesnt run on 5.x. > > > > "The current release of the JDK and JRE available via > > the FreeBSD Foundation is 1.3.1. These binaries have > > been tested and certified to run with FreeBSD > > 4.8-RELEASE but may also work on other 4.x releases. > > These binaries are not intended for use with FreeBSD > > 5.x, due to a binary compatibility issue we are > > working with the FreeBSD release engineering team to > > resolve." > > > > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml > > > > Hope this helps, > > Pete > > > > It does, thanks! Saves me from beating my head against > the concrete ... further:) > I don't agree! I am running OO in FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I installed the jdk14 from the ports. It was installed in /usr/local: [wash@beastie /usr/local] 2$ ls -al total 130 drwxr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1024 10 Mar 12:01 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 2 Dec 08:59 .. drwxrwxr-x 14 root wheel 1024 23 Feb 09:28 InstallAnywhere_6_Enterprise drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 14 Dec 23:21 OpenOffice.org1.1.0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 13 Dec 00:28 ant drwxr-xr-x 5 www wheel 512 10 Mar 12:01 atmail drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 28160 11 Mar 13:41 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 20 Feb 08:28 cvsrooot drwxr-xr-x 4 mailnull bin 512 16 Dec 15:46 dccproc drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 2048 11 Mar 13:41 etc drwxr-xr-x 108 root wheel 18432 11 Mar 13:41 include drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 26 Feb 12:03 info drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 3 Dec 16:56 j2re1.4.2_02 drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 22 Nov 00:34 jdk1.4.2 drwxr-xr-x 12 wireless wireless 512 16 Dec 14:05 kannel-1.3.1 drwxr-xr-x 37 root wheel 28160 11 Mar 13:41 lib drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 26 Feb 08:04 libdata drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 5 Mar 10:18 libexec lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 29 Nov 10:55 linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 -> jdk1.4.2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 26 Nov 08:31 livecd drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 8 Nov 20:38 livefs drwxrwsr-x 21 root mailman 512 9 Jan 03:02 mailman drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel 1024 6 Mar 04:19 man drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oracle 512 21 Oct 18:39 oracle7 dr-x------ 2 root wheel 512 25 Sep 13:27 private drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 9 Mar 17:34 sbin drwxr-xr-x 77 root wheel 1536 9 Mar 17:34 share drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 22 Sep 18:55 spamd drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 5 Mar 10:18 squid drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 1 Mar 17:13 svn drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 11 Nov 18:44 var drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 9 Mar 09:02 www [wash@beastie /usr/local] 3$ uname -a FreeBSD beastie.wananchi.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #6: Wed Mar 3 11:20:00 EAT 2004 root@beastie.wananchi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBEAST i386 -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ " ... 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