Here's a step-by-step guide for installing Java on Debian: http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian Graham Williams wrote:
Received Thu 03 Jun 2004 2:37am +1000 from David Baron:On Friday 14 May 2004 12:57, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:If I remember correctly, all the Java stuff is installed in one place (e.g. /usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04), so it is easy to maintain. You can however create a deb package from the JSDK or JRE, either be downloading the RPM and using alien, or by converting the installer: <http://z42.de/debian/>I did not have any luck with that package converter. I used alien on the RPM and installed Sun Java 1.5.0. I places it in /usr/java which is OK.Attempting the run Java, I get that it cannot find the main objects.I followed instructions with the "virtual packages" which set up pointers to Java and it man pages. Still cannot run it.My log of installing Java is at:http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Install_Sun.shtml Regards, Graham