Paul Mackinney wrote:
Deva Seetharam muttered:The 1.4 beta I've used has been very stable. I think it's in Sid, but Woody is also in my sources.list. I've also installed from the tarball and from the rpm with alien, all have worked fine.Hi, i would like to install JDK 1.3 on my machine. is there a java debian package available? i see that javasoft has tarball available. what do i need to do/know to convert that tarball into .deb format? thanks, deva$ apt-cache showpkg j2sdk Package: j2sdkVersions: 1.4.0-1(/var/lib/dpkg/status)Reverse Depends: Dependencies: 1.4.0-1 - libc6 (2 2.2.3-1) libglib1.2 (2 1.2.0) libgtk1.2 (2 1.2.10-1) libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 (0 (null)) xlibs (4 4.0.3) Provides: 1.4.0-1 - Reverse Provides:HTH, Paul
I don't think you can get 1.3 directly from Debian but you can get a deb here which makes it easy to install.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/ or other mirrors listed here: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html Paul Scott