Re: Sun's java SDK on Debian Woody.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:08:19PM +0100, JOSE MARIA wrote:
> This is just my personal experience, hope it helps someone.
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> How to install Sun?s Java sdk on Debian woody.
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> This is my personal experience on how you should go about installing Sun?s Sdk on woody linux. First of all we must forget about using apt-get because there?s no good way of installing this way with sun, www.blackdown.org has a method but it doesn?t work with the woody version of linux.
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> First we?ll need the following file:
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> j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin
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> Which we can download from http://java.sun.com , remember this is the SDK, not the JRE.
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> If we want an easy installation we will save this file to /usr/local/bin. This way we won?t have to create new paths.
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> When the file?s downloaded we?ll have to execute it, type:
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> $ /.j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin
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> $ bash j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin
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> We will have to read the contract, if we accept it we?ll type ?yes? and the installation will begin. Now we?ll have a new directory in /usr/local/bin which is the directory with the name j2sdk1.4.1_01.
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> We will now create the necessary links typing this into the console:
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> $ ln -s /usr/local/bin/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin* /usr/bin
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Why does it have to be moved? Doesn't this mess up
the Debian packaging system? Wouldn't it work from
/usr/local/bin? Sorry if those are stupid questions :(
> And it?s done! We can now type:
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> $ java -version
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> And we will be able to see the sun product version. We have successfully installed sun?s SDK on a woody linux system.
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> Jos? Mar?a Arrando
> jsm@grupobbva.net
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