Kent West wrote: > I can get Java installed and working in my browsers, but at the risk of > starting a Holy Way, what's the canonical way to install Java (run-time > only needed, not dev. kit)? > > From Blackdown? From Sun? From Debian's site, which seems to only have > JDK1.1 for Sid? > > I would suspect that Sun's JRE is *the* JRE, whereas Blackdown's might > work better with Linux, whereas Debian's is more "official". I wouldn't bother with Java 1.1 at this point. The Java you get from Sun will require you to have the version of the C runtime library that it was compiled for, which is older than what Woody or Sid use at this point. (I don't recall offhand what libc Potato uses.) It's available in the oldlibs section, however, so you can get the Sun packages to work without too much trouble. I think libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 is the one you need. Of course, Sun doesn't offer .debs, so you'll be working outside the Debian package system; annoying, but doable. Blackdown's Debian Potato or Woody packages should install and work perfectly with no extra libraries required. This is probably the best way to go if you are willing to settle for Java 1.3, which is probably adequate for now. Blackdown doesn't have Java 1.4 available yet, though apparently they are working on it. I need Java 1.4 for the development work I'm doing, so I use Sun's JDK. I'll consider replacing it with a proper .deb when Blackdown has one. Craig
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