Re: Best method to install JDK1.4?

To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Best method to install JDK1.4?
From: Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0208121159070.29603-100000@dojo.tao.ca>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 005601c241fb$a2cb3ba0$8204dca7@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com>

said Thomas T. Veldhouse (on 2002-08-12),

> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom Veldhouse
>
>
>

	For j2re, I downloaded the RPM from sun, then

$ fakeroot alien j2re.blah.rpm
# dpkg -i j2re.bla.deb

	Worked great, and I can easily remove it.


	Geordie.

Reply to:

References:
- Best method to install JDK1.4?
  - From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>

Prev by Date: APT overrules self-compiled packages
Next by Date: Re: APT overrules self-compiled packages
Previous by thread: Re: Best method to install JDK1.4?
Next by thread: modconf, /etc/modules, and /etc/mkinitrd/modules - differences??
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread