On 0, Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > I can get Java installed and working in my browsers, but at the risk of > > starting a Holy Way, what's the canonical way to install Java (run-time > > only needed, not dev. kit)? > > > > From Blackdown? From Sun? From Debian's site, which seems to only have > > JDK1.1 for Sid? > > > > I would suspect that Sun's JRE is *the* JRE, whereas Blackdown's might > > work better with Linux, whereas Debian's is more "official". > > I wouldn't bother with Java 1.1 at this point. > > The Java you get from Sun will require you to have the version of the C > runtime library that it was compiled for, which is older than what Woody > or Sid use at this point. (I don't recall offhand what libc Potato > uses.) It's available in the oldlibs section, however, so you can get > the Sun packages to work without too much trouble. I think > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 is the one you need. Of course, Sun doesn't offer > .debs, so you'll be working outside the Debian package system; annoying, > but doable. This is not true. I have Java 1.3.1_02-b02 from Sun running fine on a woody system with only libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 installed. It runs both server-type systems and gui-apps (eg robocode). [snip] Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones." - Mike Barfield Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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