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Re: Canonical Way to install Java



On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 12:03, Craig Dickson wrote:

> 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.

Even though this probably isn't the "safe" way of doing things, rather
than installing old versions of the libs I just create symbolic links
from the new versions. My computer hasn't blown up yet... :) But if
you're going to be using Java for anything serious (not just pet
projects like I do) I'd suggest either blackdown or Sun's distrib with
the old C libs.

-Alex

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