Installing java from another platform

[rwaqa]

Hi,

I have FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 platform. I am trying to download the latest version of Sun's JRE available on Linux x86 and Linux x64 (which are jre-7u1-linux-i586.tar.gz and jre-7u1-linux-x64.tar.gz)

Question is will java work on my FreeBSD 8.1 even though I am porting a Linux based JRE?
If this will work fine then from which Linux base should I download from?

Hope this makes sense and really looking forward to your kind reply.


Many Thanks,
Waqa

[SirDice]

Question is will java work on my FreeBSD 8.1 even though I am porting a Linux based JRE?
Does this answer your question: java/linux-sun-jdk16 and java/linux-sun-jre16?

[rwaqa]

Thanks SirDice,

But this the error am getting will trying to do port installation.

===> linux-sun-jre-1.6.0.24 You must manually fetch the JRE self-extracting file for the Linux platform (jre-6u24-linux-i586.bin) from
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html, place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again.
*** Error code 1

[tingo]

And the problem is that you suddenly can't read?

[rwaqa]

Tingo, thanks for the sarcasm. Do I run 'make' on the same directory /usr/ports/distfiles?

[wblock@]

No, just do what it says. Or switch to openjdk6.

[rwaqa]

Thanks wblock@,

Openjdk is easily ported using ports. Thanks again for the work around...
"In the end...something must Work"

Cheers mate!