Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:29:20 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: "Kavitha H Yogaraj" <ykavitha@uw.edu>, =?utf-8?Q?Heiner_Strau=C3=9F?= <heiner_ej@yahoo.de> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD java installation help! Message-ID: <op.wyyu26nh8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> In-Reply-To: <F8A86A46-6B12-4B41-981C-3DB21787F72C@yahoo.de> References: <CAEhp90dB%2BxM4%2B39Hz7Ed_m=BqixZzbgZkewv3vDqAVD-9eLoPg@mail.gmail.com> <F8A86A46-6B12-4B41-981C-3DB21787F72C@yahoo.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:02:36 +0200, Heiner Strauß <heiner_ej@yahoo.de> wrote: > > Am 19.06.2013 um 21:28 schrieb Kavitha H Yogaraj <ykavitha@uw.edu>: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, have no idea how to install java in FreeBSD OS. >> In the resources available online, its said that fresh ports need to be >> used, some other also say that it didn't worked. >> > > Hi, > you only need to compile and install the right port. For JDK 6 it is > openjdk6, it will work. Please proceed as described in the handbook. > Don't use parallel make jobs, it will fail with openjdk. > >> Could you please help me out in installing Java -headless (X11) in >> FreeBsd? >> > > Building headless is an art of its own, you have to ask the openjdk > people, it is not supported through the FreeBSD port system at the > moment, at least not for JDK6. Maybe it is easier to build headless with > JDK 7. Please inform us if you find a solution for headless, I'm very > interested. > Greetings. You can always run it as 'java -Dsystem.headless=true' or something like that. (Google remembers this better than I do.) But, yes, you will have half X installed as dependecies. Ronald.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?op.wyyu26nh8527sy>