From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 23:27:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8741065670 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821058FC12 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B52C5093D; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:27:41 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GltVgg5GAhtQ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:27:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D704B5089E ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:27:39 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C438DE8.7060704@langille.org> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:27:36 -0400 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie References: <20100718225234.GB9225@apollo.podro.com> In-Reply-To: <20100718225234.GB9225@apollo.podro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java (w/out ports?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:42 -0000 On 7/18/2010 6:52 PM, Jamie wrote: > Are there any documents on the web some-place that explain how > to install java on freebsd, w/out the ports system? > > Over on linux, I used to have /usr/local/jdk1.n and a symlink > to whichever JDK I was using. I kind of liked it that way, even > though it was kind of a pain to keep all the paths straight. > > Haven't been able to figure out how to do this with FreeBSD, > any pointers to docs appreciated! Why do you wish to do this without the ports system? -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/