Re: Java not working in Galeon/Mozilla

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On 2 Mar 2002, dman wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +0000, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | If I visit www.icq.com/icqwebbie I am prompted to download a vm.  If I
> | do so as a user, the installation fails.  If I do so as root,
> | installation succeeds but when I go back to the page, it still prompts
> | me to download the vm all over again.
> |
> | What do I need to do to get this working?  Is there an alternative to
> | this wizard which doesn't work?
>
> Do 3 things :
>     1)  add
>             deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ woody non-free
>         to your sources.list and update
>
>     2)  apt-get install j2sdk1.3

Does anyone know why this package is not in Debian proper? According
to the archives it was in incoming back last August. Why was it pulled
out, and is it likely to return?
                                             Faheem.