Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:22:25 -0500 From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: glarkin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dave <dfeustel@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Java Message-ID: <d356c5630807221222t14b547bu4fdee91a8119793d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4886320B.7020004@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080722174937.B5EE98FC0C@mx1.freebsd.org> <48862BCE.7080003@FreeBSD.org> <d356c5630807221200i22e1110era53dcb077729345a@mail.gmail.com> <4886320B.7020004@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew Gould wrote: > | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org> > wrote: > | > |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > |> Hash: SHA1 > |> > |> Dave wrote: > |> | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:43:47PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > |> |> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote: > |> |>> I read in _Absolute FreeBSD_ that there is now an easy-to-install > Java > |> |>> package for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0, but I have so far not found this > |> |>> package. Does it exist? > |> |> Yes. These packages are created. licensed and maintained by the > FreeBSD > |> |> Foundation. See this link: > |> |> > |> |> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml > |> |> > |> |> JN > |> | > |> | OK. I visited the link and downloaded the JDK and JRE for Freebsd > 7, but > |> | pkg_add fails, saying it cannot decode the CONTENTS file. I ran > |> bunzip2 to get > |> | tar files, but pkg_add fails with the tar file too. What's the proper > |> way to > |> | pkg_add these two files to get a working Java system? > |> | > |> | Thanks. > |> > |> Hi Dave, > |> > |> Can you post the exact output from pkg_add when it fails to install the > |> files your downloaded? That will probably help me or someone else here > |> troubleshoot the problem. > |> > |> Best regards, > |> Greg > |> - -- > |> Greg Larkin > |> <http://www.sourcehosting.net/>; > | > | > | I just downloaded diablo-caffe for FreeBSD7 (i386) with similar results: > | > | # pkg_add diablo-caffe-freebsd7-i386-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 > | pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a > package? > | > | Andrew > > Hi Andrew, > > Ok, I'm doing the same now and will report back with my findings. > > Dave, hold tight for a bit. > > Best regards, > Greg > - -- > Greg Larkin > Here's the results of pkg_add with the "v" option: # pkg_add -v diablo-caffe-freebsd7-i386-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 Requested space: 256372980 bytes, free space: 1546737664 bytes in /var/tmpinstmp.uQ3Sre pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a package? pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed Andrew Gould
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