Re: How to install proper Java? (1.3.1 or 1.4.1 SDK)
Guys,
"main" was it!
...After unpacking 51.4 Mb will be used <-- looks a lot better!
Thanks!
--- Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:35:41AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote:
> > After installing J2SE 1.4.1 the non-apt way (*.tar.gz) I found it
> > doesn't like the libraries it finds on my Debian Woody (stable). Went
> > back to blackdown.org and followed instructions to add their site to
> > my /etc/apt/sources.list
> > .
> > They say:
> >
> > Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
> > deb ftp://<mirror>/<path-to-java-directory>/debian <dist> non-free
> > (replace <dist> with potato, woody or sid)
>
> My line also mentions main.
>
> > Had to play around with it for a while before deselect *update was
> > able to get anything at all. It ended up looking like this:
> >
> > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free
> >
> > With this entry, the update of the cache seems to run smoothly, but
> > suspiciously few MB are actually downloaded. When I ran dselect
> > *select to install the J2SDK and demos (which do turn up properly in
> > the list), dselect warns that they depend on java-common and that
> > seems to be missing.
>
> Append " main" to the end of the blackdown line in your sources.list.
> java-common is available from debian as part of Woody, but I think you
> mean j2se-common, and that package is the only package that is
> non-non-free (main).
>
> > And indeed, when I do install, not a lot happens and afterwards the
> > stuff you would expect to find like java, javac or javah are to be
> > found nowhere on the HD.
>
> You did check in /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/bin (this is where j2sdk1.3's javac
> is located)
>
> > Im getting the impression that the blackdown.org debs are broken. Can
> > I just install from the 1.3.1 regular .tar.gz installer or will I get
> > library problems from that like from the 1.4.1 installer?
>
> I didn't have any problems with the blackdown debs.
>
> --
> Seneca
> seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
>
>
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