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Re: Eclipse and Java 1.5 user report



On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:38:39PM +0100, Ivan F. Villanueva B. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 07:07:46PM +0100, spam2006@meeque.de wrote:
> > That was working quite fine with a J2SDK from
> > Sun (installed via java-package). However I prefer to manage all my
> > software with apt, so I decided to check out the Eclipse related Debian
> > packages recently.
> 
> Is there a debian repository for java 5 ?

Debian doesn't provide it as we cant package and redistribute it
legally.

> > I worked around this problem by using Sun's J2SDK 1.5 to run Eclipse. Luckily
> > you've made it very easy to do so: I just had to change some lines in
> > /etc/eclipse/java_home or in ~/.eclipse/eclipserc.
> 
> Could you explain what to do exactly ?

Either put the path where you install Java5 to on the top of
/etc/eclipse/java_home or put this into ~/.eclipse/eclipserc:

JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/sunjdk


Cheers,
Michael
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