[gentoo-java] Installing IBM JVM 5.0 on PPC

[gentoo-java] Installing IBM JVM 5.0 on PPC

[Bartosz Sokolowski]

Hello!,

I'm newbe to Gentoo. I wanted to install IBM JVM 5.0 on my ppc machine, but
it seems not so easy. I cannot see any candidate to install with emerge
(only 1.4.2 version is available) and I cannot find any information how to
do it via Google :(. I'd like to try latest Java because of the Mozilla
plugin finally available to PPC. Another problem on my system is that if I
execute
java-config --list-available-vms
I get nothing. No output no error. Just available VMs are not listed.
Can anyone help installing Java JVM?

Best regards,
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Bartosz (Bazant) Sokolowski
PegasosII G4/1000 powered by Radeon8500
MOS, Debian, Gentoo & MOL user
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Re: [gentoo-java] Installing IBM JVM 5.0 on PPC

[Joshua Nichols]

Bartosz Sokolowski wrote:
> Hello!,
>
> I'm newbe to Gentoo. I wanted to install IBM JVM 5.0 on my ppc machine, but
> it seems not so easy. I cannot see any candidate to install with emerge
> (only 1.4.2 version is available) and I cannot find any information how to
> do it via Google :(. I'd like to try latest Java because of the Mozilla
> plugin finally available to PPC. Another problem on my system is that if I
> execute
>   
All 1.5 JDK's are packaged.masked. To emerge, you'd first have to add 
the following bit to /etc/portage/package.unmask:

dev-java/ibm-jdk-bin-1.5*
> java-config --list-available-vms
> I get nothing. No output no error. Just available VMs are not listed.
> Can anyone help installing Java JVM?
>
> Best regards,
>   
java-config only lists currently installed VMs. You'd have to emerge 
them first before.


- Josh
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