Gentoo Java 8u11 Installation Problems
I downloaded the Java 8 files from Oracle, as instructed, and placed
them in the /usr/portage/distfiles/ directory. All is
well and portage detects that the file is present as you can see
from this directory listing:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 7.3K Apr 17 2009 java-config-wrapper-0.16.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69M Dec 21 2012 jdk-6u37-linux-x64.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92M Dec 21 2012 jdk-7u10-linux-x64.tar.gz -rwx------ 1 root root 152M Jul 30 08:39 jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 1.7M Dec 6 2012 kbd-1.15.5.tar.gz
When I emerge the package oracle-jdk-bin I get this
error:
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11 * jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11/work gzip: /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11/distdir/jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz: Permission denied tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors * ERROR: dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11::gentoo failed (unpack phase): * failure unpacking jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz
You may notice that the file owner for all the files is
portage except for the files I downloaded. This seems to be
the problem as it carries through to the extracted location:
# ls -lah /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11/ drwxrwxr-x 6 portage portage 4.0K Jul 30 09:04 . drwxrwxr-x 3 portage portage 4.0K Jul 30 09:04 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 0 Jul 30 09:04 .die_hooks drwxr-xr-x 2 root portage 4.0K Jul 30 09:04 distdir drwxrwxr-x 2 portage portage 4.0K Jul 30 09:04 homedir prwxrwx--- 1 root portage 0 Jul 30 09:04 .ipc_in prwxrwx--- 1 root portage 0 Jul 30 09:04 .ipc_out -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 09:04 .setuped drwxrwxr-x 3 portage portage 4.0K Jul 30 09:04 temp drwx------ 2 portage portage 4.0K Jul 30 09:04 work
Once I change the ownership of this file to
portage:portage the emerge seems to complete successfully:
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11 * jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jdk-8u11-linux-x64.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11/work/jdk ... >>> Source prepared.
I hope this helps someone as it was a little confusing to me for a short while