Re: trying to install tomcat 4.1.24 from unstable

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

Might I suggest sticking with the Sun JDK that you installed?  As for 
Tomcat, it might be best to manually install that as well, for now, from 
jakarta.apache.org

Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> >    I'm trying to install Tomcat 4.1.24-2 from the unstable section,
> >    and I'm running into a wall.  It depends on "j2re1.4" or
> >    "java2-runtime", neither of which seems to exist.  I have
> >    installed the Sun JDK 1.4.1_02 manually, so there actually is a
> >    Java 1.4 runtime, and I installed the "java-common" package, but I
> >    don't know how to get around this unmet dependency.  Do I need to
> >    make a dummy package?  I've never packaged anything before, either
> >    .deb or .rpm, and while I'd like to learn, a project deadline
> >    looms near.
>
>
> You can try getting the Blackdown runtime in .deb format, which
> satisfies the dependency:
>
>    deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian unstable main non-free
>
> When I installed tomcat last week, I installed j2sdk1.3 and it worked
> fine.
>
> Otherwise, if you don't want to do this, check out the 'equivs' package.
> You can use it to build a dummy package to provide java2-runtime,
> effectively telling dpkg that you already have it installed.
>
> KEN

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