Re: Best method to install JDK1.4?

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

I just linked the libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 to the once in /usr/lib that is
currently there for "testing" and it seems to work.  I think I will try
installing the package though.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamin W.Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: Best method to install JDK1.4?


> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:27:32 -0500
> "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> wrote:
>
> > What is the best method to install the Sun JDK 1.4.0?  I have not been
> > able to find a prepared package (no surprise because of the license) and
> > I have not been able to find a way to get it to work from apt.  Should I
> > just download from Sun and install?  /usr/local preferred?
>
> That's what I did.  I moved the uncompressed archive to /usr/local and
> created symlinks of /usr/local/jdk and /usr/local/jre to their appropriate
> locations (jdk to the main directory and jre to the jre subdirectory
> within) so future versions could be dropped in without having to rework
> everything.
>
> You will need to install "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" to get the Sun JDK to
> work.
>
> --
> Jamin W. Collins
>
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