Re: Sun JRE, JSDK and J2EE on debian

[Thomas Weinbrenner <thomas@thomas-weinbrenner.de>]

prabusubroto@arcor.de wrote:
> 
> I am trying to have JRE and SDK on my debian because my boss push me to use
> Sun Java. I downloaded the JRE, converted it to deb package with alien like
> this:
>  alien -d -i ./j2re-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.rpm
> 
> it succeeded.

There is a better way to create java packages than alien. Use the "java-package"
http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/java-package

Just download the self-extracting file from Sun and use:

 make-jpkg j2re-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.bin

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Thomas Weinbrenner