From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 16:03:50 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 0043416A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:03:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A1743D3F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2C03pv4066213; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id i2C03gVH065302; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:03:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Matthew Seaman , Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20040312000341.GB10603@tao.thought.org> References: <20040311040150.GA14768@tao.thought.org> <20040311211814.GB76764@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040311211814.GB76764@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:03:50 -0000 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:18:14PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:01:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm trying to install the latest OO on my 5.2 server, but for > > some reason, it can't see the java installation there. > > Originally, I had java/jdk14. No luck. Same with java/jdk13. > > > > Should I take the simpler route and download the pkg for 52 > > or is there a way of getting OO-1.1.0_3 to see the java? > > Did you fill in the appropriate stuff in the Tools>Options>Security > menu item? I found that the ClassPath setting was absolutely vital > for using JDBC connectivity to databses. > > Errr... or did I infact completely misinterpret what you meant, and > actually you're saying that OO won't install because it doesn't pick > up that you've got java/jdk14 installed as your default JDK and so > complains about unfulfilled dependencies? You could try setting > JAVA_HOME to /usr/local/jdk1.4.2 and/or editing /usr/local/etc/javavms > to that the FREEBSD-JDK1.4.2 line comes first in the file. > The latter. OO didn't pick up my default jdk. (On prev versions, (v1.0.3, e.g); no problem. ) I'll try again given your insights. many thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix