Re: Trying to install Sun's Java2 Runtime
Thanks! It works beautifully! :) So much easier than the other approach...
Pontus
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 21.50, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:24:52PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm on Woody, kernel 2.4.17 and have been trying to install the Java2
> | Runtime v1.3.1 from Sun without any luck...
> | I've followed their instructions; downloaded the autoextracting file and
> | unpacked it in /usr/java as they sugges
>
> t. It doesen't report any problems,
>
> | but will not work either... Is this the only, or is there other
> | java-runtimes available for Debian? How can I troubleshoot?
>
> My opinion is to forget those commercially distributed tarballs since
> they are usually more complicated and you have no assurance that it
> will work on _your_ system. Instead, for java, go to blackdown.org
> and add one of their mirrors to your apt sources. The package is
> 'j2re1.3' or 'j2sdk1.3' depending on whether you want just the runtime
> or the whole development bundle.
>
> -D
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