On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:12:24 -0600, Yfrwlf wrote: > On 01/20/2012 10:05 AM, Evan Daniel wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Yfrwlf<yfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 01/20/2012 07:05 AM, Dennis Nezic wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:10:39 +1300, Austin wrote: > >> > >> Originally tried the JavaWebStart installer, and had problems with > >> disk space. Moved /usr/local to a bigger partition, then downloaded > >> the offline installer: > >> http://freenet.googlecode.com/files/new_installer_offline_1405.jar > >> as per the web site instructions; also the sig file > >> new_installer_offline_1405.jar.sig which I verified with gpg. > >> Then ran > >> java -jar new_installer_offline.jar > >> All went OK until Processing step 2/15, "Setting the Updater up", > >> which reported "Process execution failed" and asked "Continue > >> Anyway?". I continued, but every step after that failed. > >> Cleared out the target directory and tried again, same result. > >> Can't find any installation log, is there one somewhere? > >> Grateful for any suggestions as to what to try next. > >> System is Debian Linux 2.6, amd64 (Intel i7 870), 8GB RAM. > >> Java OpenJDK 1.6.0_18 > >> > >> (Side note: Why isn't there a debian package for freenet yet?) > >> > >> > >> Well with the only dependency being Java I could understand why > >> there are no packages. If there needed to be though it should be > >> Zero Install so that it's cross-distro and cross-platform. > > Using Zero Install won't make it so I can "apt-get install freenet". > > That needs a Debian package, hosted on the Debian repositories. The > > request is for a Debian package on Debian repos, not to make it > > easier to install Freenet on Debian. > > > > Evan > > Okay. Developers would love to not have to spend the time making a > package for every distro and distro verison though, and running > "0launch <program's url>" to download and run a program from the > command line is an option, though not as simple, but hopefully after > it gets a software store for ZI collections that will become an > option as well.
The whole point of community distros is precisely to help program developers in this regard. Gentoo users, for example, maintain a freenet package completely on their own. It seems like you're trying to wish away the whole concept of distros. (Actually, trying to impose your own preferred yet-another-package-manager :p.) _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
