On Fri, 14 May, 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: > ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs > gets away with it. when i tell my friends they should try debian instead of > the usual distributions, everything's peachy until i tell them it doesn't > include java (we're doing java as part of cs). "what!? you mean i have to > download the jdk AND netscape!?" the jdk is getting bigger all the time > too, so the chances of downloading it over slow links are getting slimmer. > > i guess this means we need an installer package like we used to have for > netscape which sucks in the blackdown tarball and sticks the files in all > the right places. i don't know how to make ordinary packages i'm afraid, > never mind installer packages. although if anybody wants to take it on i'm > willing to help in any way that i can. Easy solution, buy one of those non-free Debian CDs, with the bits of non-free they can shove on a CD on. Loads of vendors do them. -- I consume, therefore I am
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