Re: Quitting debian-java

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

* Artur Radosz <slu@ags.pl> [010302 01:58]:
> > non-free is not part of Debian. realplayer comes only as an installer.
> 
> For me it`s :). It`s listed in installer. Mirorred on your sites. 
> Packaged in .deb.

Don't get too happy with non-free. It almost got cut a few months back,
and I don't expect it to live forever. I don't know how I feel about the
issue, but Debian *is* based on the idea of being completely Free.

> Anyway, there is a way to put java2 in debian (ok, in non-free) as 
> installer.

A line similar to the following will help:
deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free

Put it in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. apt-get update. apt-get
install j2sdk1.3. Note the new java executable. :) Send a thank-you note
to the good people at Blackdown.


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