ivan@pcmos.com wrote:
3) apt-get install j2sdk1.3 4) cp all the contents from "tmp" to "/usr/lib/j2se/1.3/" delete the original first! (this is because the blackdown is not stable!!!)
This is something that you never should do: Replaced files from a Debian package will be overwritten whenever the corresponding package is upgraded. This is even worse if you partly overwrite files from a package: You'll get a mixture of the old and new version on a package upgrade.
11) erase entire contents of /etc/init.d/tomcat4 and put :
This is a conffile. Are you sure you know what you are doing?Why are you installing a Debian package and then replacing all its files? If you want to locally install files that are not managed by the Debian package system you should put them in /usr/local. If you want to tell the Debian package managemant system that certain packages like java2-runtime are present you should use equivs.
Stefan