Re: Java 142

[Alain Perry <sensei@quarkup.org>]

Le jeudi 23 juin 2005 à 00:11 +0800, William Xu a écrit :
> Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
> > I am downloading IBMJava2-SDK-142.ppc.tgz and IBMJava2-JRE-142.ppc.tgz,
> > and now that I look there's also IBMJava2-JAVACOMM-142.ppc.tgz, do I
> > need all of these, or either the sdk/jre and javacomm, and is the
> > difference between jre and sdk just that one has libraries that can be
> > linked to for compiling, and the jre is just for running java
> > programs?
> 
> I've only installed jdk, seems jdk has included jre.

Yep. JDKs usually include a JRE. So you shouldn't need to download both.

> > and also where would I look for instructions to use the "java-package"
> > that Rogerio Brito informed me of?
> 
> `java-package' is just a tool for building deb packages for jdk. While
> installing jdk is quite easy, i don't see many benifits by using it.

Building a debian package allows apt-get to know you have a JRE/JDK
installed, and thus allows you to install debian packages that depend on
one.

To use it (IIRC): make-jpkg <filename> where filename is your
IBM*.ppc.tgz file.

But you should be able to find more info about it
in /usr/share/doc/java-package

-- 
Alain Perry