Re: j2skd1.4.0beta-i386.rpm to deb; will it work ?

[Ken Bloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>]

"Dr. Sachin Kale" <sauravsk@agd2.dot.net.in <mailto:sauravsk@agd2.dot.net.in>> said:
> Hello,
> want to install sdk on debian 2.2 r5, as the download was huge,
> thought of converting an existing rpm to deb. ( rpm was given out by a
> comp mag ). Conversion to deb was successful though it gave several
> warnings about shared libraries. Then dpkg -i ( resultant deb ) was
> also successfull. Now dselect mentions the above package as "up to
> date package in section alien". dpkg -l j2* gives 'i i' flag to it.
>
> But still on typing javac i get bash: no such commad error. I know
> this is a bit far fetched but will this work ?
> And if so how ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sachin

That's because the java binaries aren't in your path, because they are found in 
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/

Other than that, the alien method will work. I did it myself, using alien -g 
to generate simply a directory, so I could put the appropriate symlinks into
/usr/bin, and so I could symlink the browser plugins to the appropriate places.
Then I ran dpkg-buildpackage-rfakeroot to create the package.