On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:34:39AM -0400, Radek Zajkowski wrote: | Hey guys, I have added a java source to my sources.list: | | Deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody non-free | | However although it does show the packages it tells me they're not all | available, in particular j2re. | | 1. How is that possible (I have also seen that happen with other packages)? Perhaps the mirror has the Packages.gz file, but is missing the *.deb files ... Recently I've seen more than one blackdown mirror report no such file when trying to download the .deb. | 2. Do you know a reliable Java mirror? Look on the blackdown.org site -- they have a whole list of them. Here's the list in my sources.list : #deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ sid main non-free #deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ sid main non-free #deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ sid main non-free ## JDK 1.4 compiled with gcc 3.2 : ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown/JDK-1.4/i386/01 -D -- There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who do not. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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