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

["Dr. Sachin Kale" <sauravsk@agd2.dot.net.in>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Bloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: j2skd1.4.0beta-i386.rpm to deb; will it work ?


> "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.
>

Thanks for response,
can you tell me simple steps to get this path buisiness right ?

Sachin