Noob building a package

[ant129]

Hi everyone. Total noob alert. I got samba working now for my ultimate goal, I am trying to install subsonic. I have been following this thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=185

I am trying to install Oracles SE Java for ARMv5 as suggested but I don't know how.

First I installed yaourt and then I tried different commands with yaourt but nothing seemed to work. Keep getting these messages:
"error: missing package metadata in /share/temp/ejre.tar.gz"

I can't seem to find a noob's guide for this. I know this is trivial for you guys but I can't find the answer.

[pepedog]

I would guess that you are supposed Uncompressed the tar.gz file, and then either move the tree of files somewhere or run an install script that was within the tar

[ant129]

Thanks for the reply, you helped me to further my search. I was under the assumption that all applications had to be installed using pacman or something similar. The directions here seemed to do the trick:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... l#contents

[ant129]

And I am stuck again been going at this for hours now. I can't seem to figure out how to do this step:

"Add <JAVA_HOME>/bin to your PATH environment variable setting in order to run the Java binaries."

I thought I had to edit the etc/profile file, I edited the following

# Set our default path
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin/ejer1.6.0_25/bin"
export PATH

That didn't seem to do anything. I am suppose to be able to type in java -version and it will print the version of java tool.

Do I need to add a new path with the java location? I tried editing bash.bashrc and that didn't go over well either luckily I was able to undo the damage I did.

[pepedog]

Did you logout or reboot after changing path, or they could actually be typed in on the terminal.

[ant129]

Yeah I rebooted. Did that seem right?

[ant129]

Update: ID 10 T error.

I misspelled "ejre" Everything is working now thanks.

[ant129]

And subsonic is up and running no issues. Mission accomplished

[pepedog]

I actually looked at that line (you have it in bold) and puzzled knowing you had jre, assumed you changed directory name.
Back to building a package, in most cases not only does it package, but compile binaries, configure too.
Some possible reasons no one has packaged these pre-compiled binaries is there is either an agreement to say yes to before download, or a license thing, or no way to download automaticaly, or owners do not allow distribution by others.

[ant129]

So adding " subsonic " to the /etc/rc.conf Daemons section does not auto start the subsonic server after a reboot. Any other way to do this? The terminal command to start subsonic is " subsonic ". I double and tripled checked my spelling this time .