Re: jdk 1.3

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

Aaron Maxwell muttered:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go
> > with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and
> > install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that
> > Java VM is already installed?
> 
> The easiest way may be to install one of the dummy packages:
> 
>   shiznit[2]% apt-cache search java|grep dummy
>   java-compiler-dummy - Dummy Java compiler
>   java-virtual-machine-dummy - Dummy Java virtual machine
> 
> These packages don't install any new software, they just satisfy 
> dependencies.  They were made for exactly the situation you are facing.
> 
> Try 'apt-get install java-virtual-machine-dummy'.  I expect this will 
> sate jike's longing for a JVM on your system.
> 
> Let us know how it works -
> Aaron
I had already installed jikes with kaffe (the most benign provider of
java VM) but after installing java-virtual-machine-dummy I was able to
apt-get remove kaffe without deinstalling jikes.

As always, _thanks_ for the specific apt-cache search example!

Paul
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