Re: Swing?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:07:31AM +0100, Ottavio Campana wrote:

> How can I have swing working  under potato r2? I've got jdk1.1 installed
> and it doesn't contain this library (or I haven't seen it....).
> 
> I've found in  the faq of the mailing  list a way to install  them , but
> I'd like to  know if there's a deb  package with it or if  there are the
> deb packages of a newer jdk 1.2 o 1.3

Sun's Swing is very non-free software, and as such, cannot be included in
Debian.  I believe it is not even redistributable outside of Sun.

> Thank you
> 
> PS: I've looked  in the ftp site  of sun for that library.  I've found a
> tar.Z of  about 17  MB. Is  ths library  so big  or did  I find  a wrong
> package?

That sounds like the right file.

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 - mdz