From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 05:11:21 2003 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 9CDCD37B405 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 771CB43F3F for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 29312 invoked by uid 65534); 28 Jul 2003 12:11:18 -0000 Received: from dsl-cust-145.openweb.ca (EHLO [64.39.186.145]) (64.39.186.145) by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 28 Jul 2003 14:11:18 +0200 From: Adam To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1059394245.13942.28.camel@elwood> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 28 Jul 2003 08:10:45 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Java Installation 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: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:11:22 -0000 On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 07:27, David Lynch wrote: > Dear Sir, There are many females that use this list regularly. > I am an extremely novice FreeBSD (and Unix) user, and I am trying to install > Java 1.1.8 on my Unix box. I have downloaded the correct archive file and > unpacked it using TAR, but when I come to run the next step of the > instructions supplied, 'make', I get the error 'no target to make'. Do you > have any more instructions that I could please follow? As root: /usr/ports/java/jdk13 make install clean >From there, follow the instructions on how to fetch the necessary files. -- Adam