Java

Installing Java 1.4.2 SDK, the quick and dirty way.

NOTE THAT THERE ARE LICENSING ISSUES WITH JAVA TECHNOLOGIES FROM SUN.COM AND FreeBSD -- IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO RECONSILE THESE AS THEY PERTAIN TO YOUR USE OF JAVA

Installing Java 1.4.2 SDK, the quick and dirty way.

NOTE THAT THERE ARE LICENSING ISSUES WITH JAVA TECHNOLOGIES FROM SUN.COM AND FreeBSD -- IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO RECONSILE THESE AS THEY PERTAIN TO YOUR USE OF JAVA

You will need:

1. about 2 gigs free disk space. Check that you have this by running df
2. to update your ports tree -- see cvsup and Updating_the_ports_tree
3. to download the following files:

bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz from <a href="http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK14SCSLConfirm.html>Eyesbeyond.com</a>
j2re-1_4_2_06-linux-i586.bin from <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html">Sun's j2se JRE page</a>
j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip from <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.html">This page at sun.com</a>
j2sdk-1_4_2-mozilla_headers-unix.zip from <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.html">This page at sun.com</a>
j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip from <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.html">This page at sun.com</a>
j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586.bin from <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html">Sun's j2se JDK page</a>

1. to enable linux compatibility -- you can do this via sysinstall
2. add the following line to your /etc/fstab:

linprocfs   /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw   0  0

1. to run linprocfs -- you may need to do this:

kldload linprocfs
mount /compat/linux/proc

1. place the files you downloaded in the third step in /usr/ports/distfiles
2. go into the jdk14 dir:

samizdata# cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14

1. and install it:

samizdata# make install

See http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2004/11/installing-java-on-freebsd-in-january.html for a similar method of doing this.