Re: Running Java App fails...

[Daniel Tryba <daniel@tryba.nl>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:35:09AM -0500, helices wrote:
> I am on straight etch.  What need I install?
> 
> # COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l '*sun*'
[...]
> un  sun-j2re1.4              <none>                   (no description available)
> un  sun-java5-jre            <none>                   (no description available)
[...]

Ancient....

> # sudo aptitude install sun-java5-jre

I blame aptitude (I'd rather use dselect if I was forced to :), update
you cache and you should be seeing the following packages:

un  ia32-sun-java5 <none>         (no description available)
un  ia32-sun-java5 <none>         (no description available)
ii  sun-java5-bin  1.5.0-10-3     Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE)
ii  sun-java5-demo 1.5.0-10-3     Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
un  sun-java5-doc  <none>         (no description available)
un  sun-java5-font <none>         (no description available)
ii  sun-java5-jdk  1.5.0-10-3     Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
ii  sun-java5-jre  1.5.0-10-3     Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE)
un  sun-java5-plug <none>         (no description available)
un  sun-java5-sour <none>         (no description available)

(also see
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=java5&searchon=names&subword=1&version=stable&release=all )

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