"@(none).adelphia.net" <""jgreenaw\"@(none).adelphia.net"> wrote in message news:<3f43f308$0$94430$45beb828@newscene.com>...
> Ted Unangst wrote:
> > On 20 Aug 2003, it was written:
> >
> >
> >>>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)
> >
> >
> > it should get them for you. if he hasn't heard of ports though, i thought
> > it likely he hadn't installed libraries which would cause the java install
> > to fail.
> >
> >
> good idea
OK, here is my solution:
1. Hit my local OpenBSD FTP server and grabbed ports.tar.gz
2. Uncompressed that into the /usr/
3. CD /usr/ports/devel/jdk/jdk1.3-linux/
4. make
5. make install

Seems to be working fine now ... thanks