On 20 Aug 2003, Aaron wrote:

> > are you using ports? just drop the right bin file in distfiles, type make
> > install, and it works.
>
> I do not think I'm using hte ported version, I just DL'd the .BIN for
> linux from Sun's site. Is there an alternative file I should be using?
>
> Any more detail about the 'right bin file' and 'distfiles' ?

take the bin file you downloaded, stick it in ports/distfiles, cd
ports/devel/jdk/1.3-linux, and make install. ports is usually under
/usr/ports, see ports.html.

you also need the redhat libraries, get the package from an ftp site.

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