Re: Freenet on OS X. Was: VPN

Steve Dougherty <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]> Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:40:39 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.support
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 03/28/2015 11:52 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
> 
> It’s just two different ways to get java on your computer.  The JDK 
> is more for developers.
> 
> On a fresh OS X system, install the JDK and then the Freenet jar and 
> it will work and you won’t get the popups.  Somebody with wiki
> access should probably update it.

Oops! Thanks for reporting this. Which page on the wiki? Or is it the
downloads page on the main site?

This is what happens when we don't have an active OS X maintainer. :(

> Install the JDK: 
> www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
>
> Install Freenet jar:
> https://freenetproject.org/jnlp/freenet_installer.jar
> 
> You may want to remove the applet as it doesn’t work.

The tray application is broken too?

> The JDK will update your java path so you won’t get those popups
> anymore.  You can remove the JRE.  There are other ways of resolving
> your issue, such as manually setting your java path to use the jre
> but I had success with the above method.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> — Eric Chadbourne

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