Ted Unangst wrote:
> 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.
>

when i did this, make install I'm pretty sure it went and got the redhat
binaries for me, unless i already had them. But I did an install from
floppy and java was the first thing I got running. (although I remember
running make install twice not sure what went wrong)

I've only been running openBSD for a week, so follow Teds advice, if not
sure.

Although I would be interested in if that did get the binaries
automatically.

Joe