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Old 06-19-2012, 09:06 AM   #16
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Spaces in directory names is an abomination introduced by MS Windows and lazy-ass GUI programs.
Which would include KDE's Dolphin as the default name for a new folder is "New Folder" (with a space in it).
 
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Old 06-19-2012, 09:39 AM   #17
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I personally agree with Eric.
That is an unfortunate choice for a default name on a unix machine, even in the case of an evolute file manager like Dolphin, a "New_folder"/"New-folder" would have been a better one.

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Old 06-19-2012, 09:44 AM   #18
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Which would include KDE's Dolphin as the default name for a new folder is "New Folder" (with a space in it).
Indeed. That is why I do not use GUIs to create directories. I also never create folders :-)

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Old 07-23-2012, 09:47 AM   #19
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Using spaces in directory names is not supported by Slackware's scripts. I also do not support it in any of my own scripts. I even have a script (massconvert32.sh) which aborts when it detects a space in the directory name.

Spaces in directory names is an abomination introduced by MS Windows and lazy-ass GUI programs. Real UNIX men avoid space.

Eric
How do I make that come up as one my my Slackware quotes?
 
Old 06-07-2013, 11:53 PM   #20
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My script should run just fine in a directory with a space in the name, however jre.SlackBuild will not as it is missing appropriate quoting in some places. This is actually the case with quite a few SlackBuild scripts, so I would generally avoid spacing in directory names anyway.
question, for your script, you were actually installing jre... As far as I know, jre is different from jdk... So if I wish to install jdk, can I modify your script to do it?
 
Old 06-08-2013, 12:04 AM   #21
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There's a Java installation script in /extra. It works for either the JRE or the JDK.
 
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There's a Java installation script in /extra. It works for either the JRE or the JDK.
I know... it's build for jdk6 in 13.37... I'm trying to install jdk7...
 
Old 06-08-2013, 04:16 AM   #23
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Look in Slackware 14 tree. The java.SlackBuild there builds a jdk or a jre package for you, based on the Java archive you downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html and placed in that same directory before starting the script.
The SlackBuild will work for Java7. And Oracle's binaries for Java7 will work on Slackware 13.37 just as well as on Slackware 14.

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Old 06-08-2013, 07:53 PM   #24
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Look in Slackware 14 tree. The java.SlackBuild there builds a jdk or a jre package for you, based on the Java archive you downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html and placed in that same directory before starting the script.
The SlackBuild will work for Java7. And Oracle's binaries for Java7 will work on Slackware 13.37 just as well as on Slackware 14.

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I think I tried this way, and I remember it didnt work and seems it's because the build...
 
Old 06-09-2013, 12:59 AM   #25
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You think? I think not!

If you follow exactly what Alien Bob said it will work (it works just fine for me). Let me break it down into precise steps.

Firstly use a command like the following to automatically fetch the SlackBuild script and all associated files, and save them into a local directory called 'java' (you can change the mirror and perhaps the --cut-dirs= value if you need to):

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wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=4 ftp://ftp.slackware.no/slackware/slackware-14.0/extra/source/java/
Then grab a Java archive from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html and place it into this same local 'java' directory.

Finally cd into the directory and as root issue the following:

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sh ./java.SlackBuild

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Old 06-09-2013, 02:54 AM   #26
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To break down the installation steps into even more detailed ones you can have a look here:
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:java
 
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You think? I think not!

If you follow exactly what Alien Bob said it will work (it works just fine for me). Let me break it down into precise steps.

Firstly use a command like the following to automatically fetch the SlackBuild script and all associated files, and save them into a local directory called 'java' (you can change the mirror and perhaps the --cut-dirs= value if you need to):

Code:
wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=4 ftp://ftp.slackware.no/slackware/slackware-14.0/extra/source/java/
Then grab a Java archive from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html and place it into this same local 'java' directory.

Finally cd into the directory and as root issue the following:

Code:
sh ./java.SlackBuild
Amazing! It worked... Well, I guess I would always use this command to fetch Build script instead of go find it on web and download it... Thanks a lot!
 
  


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