So I installed the Java addon. But where is it?

Most likely not on your hard disk and not on the ReadyNAS otherwise you wouldn't be asking ;)
Looking at what the add-on actually does you may try to run this command from your SSH shell and see what happens

apt-get -y install sun-java5-jre

This may at least give a clue as to what happened during the installation of the add-on.

-Stefan

Thanks for your reply Stefan. I really would like to get Java up and running so that I can attempt to install serviio.

Here's the result of the command you suggest:

MainStore:/# apt-get -y install sun-java5-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  java-common sun-java5-bin
Suggested packages:
  equivs sun-java5-plugin ia32-sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-fonts ttf-baekmuk ttf-unfonts ttf-unfonts-core ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho
  ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-arphic-uming
Recommended packages:
  libasound2 libxext6 libxi6 libxp6 libxt6 libxtst6 gsfonts-x11
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  java-common sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 83.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  java-common
E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
MainStore:/# 

The thing I dont understand is that I installed it via frontview and it never barked. Just installed and said good to go. I dont see anythng in /var/log.

of course, on 4.2.19 I cant run apt-get update. What is the score with this anyway? When can we expect to be able to get it?

Scouser wrote:
Thanks for your reply Stefan. I really would like to get Java up and running so that I can attempt to install servo.

I *think* I once built a "real" add-on for OpenJDK 1.6. Real in the sense that it doesn't rely on apt-get to work but comes with all the needed binaries in the package. No promises given but I can have a look whether I still have that.

Scouser wrote:
The thing I dont understand is that I installed it via frontview and it never barked. Just installed and said good to go. I dont see anythng in /var/log.

Well, the installer will only bark when told to do so ;) And since the apt-get command would always return an error code, even with -y specified, it makes sense to not bark there.

Scouser wrote:
of course, on 4.2.19 I cant run apt-get update. What is the score with this anyway? When can we expect to be able to get it?

I don't think I understand what your question is, there. Can you clarify?

-Stefan

I *think* I once built a "real" add-on for OpenJDK 1.6. Real in the sense that it doesn't rely on apt-get to work but comes with all the needed binaries in the package. No promises given but I can have a look whether I still have that.

That would be really appreciated. Thank you so much.

Scouser wrote: of course, on 4.2.19 I cant run apt-get update. What is the score with this anyway? When can we expect to be able to get it? I don't think I understand what your question is, there. Can you clarify?

I can't get apt-get update to work. It barfs with "W: GPG error: http://www.readynas.com 4.2.19/ Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B7F02108D553259A"

As I understand it, the SDK for 4.2.19 is not yet available. Just wondering when it will come. Feeling rather nude without a dev kit on my new baby :cry:

-Stefan[/quote]

Scouser wrote:
I can't get apt-get update to work. It barfs with "W: GPG error: http://www.readynas.com 4.2.19/ Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B7F02108D553259A"

Well, what you can do as an interim solution is to disable the 4.2.19 repository in the sources.list file to get the more standard stuff from the Debian repos and recompile the rest from the GPL sources.

-Stefan

I considered doing this. But was worried that I might stomp on something by overwriting existing system files. ( I mean if I do an apt-get "somestuff" as root!)
I will give this a go. Thanks again for the help.

Cool. That did the trick.

MainStore:/etc/apt# java -version java version "1.5.0_14" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_14-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_14-b03, mixed mode, sharing) MainStore:/etc/apt#

Thanks heaps.

Alas this is no good to me. I need Java6.
Cant seem to find the debian backport for sun-java6-jre .

Afaik there is no backport for JRE6/JDK6 to etch. That was the reason I built the OpenJDK 6 stuff in the first place ;) I'll see what I find.

-Stefan

Ah! so no wonder I could not find it. Appreciate your help Stefan. I have Serviio installed and ready on the Nas. If it works, I will have a go at packaging it up.
D you know if there is a dev kit available for frontview for 4.2.19? I.e., to build an addon plugin. I found http://www.readynas.com/?p=346 but it seems old (2008). Do you know if these instructions still apply?
Thanks again