It’s just very easy as FreeBSD has a license with Sun Microsystems. Just download the package for your architecture in http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml and proceed as follows:
pkg_add -r javavmwrapper
pkg_add diablo-jre-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00.tbz (in my case the i386 architecture)
This will install the firefox plugin as well.
That’s all.
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When you install FreeBSD, there’s no locate database, so you must create one with
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
once finished, you will be able to use locate to find files the fast way.
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First of all insert the cd and mount it doing:
mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom
then proceed following the post in:
when finished try to write the command latex and see if you get any error:
I got the error:
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.2 not found
But it is solved by going to /usr/lib and doing
ln -s libm.so libm.so.2
then I got another error, similar but with libc.so.4 and solved the same way as before but doing
ln -s libc.so libc.so.4 (in /usr/lib)
Then you must type
texconfig
and do a rehash
All solved!! Happy TeXing in FreeBSD!!!!
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I’ve left Ubuntu, and now I use FreeBSD. A Unix BSD like operating system. It’s very powerful, fast and reliable. I’ve been playing with it only for two days and to be sincere is wonderful. Much faster and responsive than Ubuntu. Installing software is awesome, since nearly all is compiled, so software is very fast and tailored to your machine specs. At the moment, I will be with it for some time, to see if it can be suited for a final Desktop for me. Time will say and decide if I go back to Ubuntu or not. At the moment, Hi FreeBSD, more info at http://www.freebsd.com
