Aaron Brashears wrote:
I'm setting up a debian development box for a friend, and I went to install the latest jdk from sun. It's been a while, but I recall the installation of a java-compiler-dummy to set up the package management system to recognize sun's java tools. What happened to it? On further inspection, I've noticed that java-virtual-machine-dummy is not in unstable. Is it also on the way out?
Just go to www.blackdown.org. Blackdown sdk has javac from Sun and it's packaged for Debian. If you wish, you may add this to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free (this is one of the mirrors, but you can get others. See website)