Re: packages in unstable
On 2004-03-22, Matthew Joyce penned:
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Rajesh Menon
>> [mailto:prm225@cs.nyu.edu] Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 1:43 PM To:
>> Matthew Joyce Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: packages
>> in unstable
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>> why not install the proprietary sun jdk available from the sun
>> download site? the install is quite an easy one.
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>> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Matthew Joyce wrote:
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>> >
>> > I have an oportunity to use Debian for an important project, this
>> > project requires the following app versions.
>> >
>> > Java 1.4.1 Postgres db 7.4 Tomcat 4.1.29
>> >
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> Right, thanks for that, I'll take a look.
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> I guess I'm more concerned with the other packages, and their
> dependancies.
>
I believe the problem is licensing: Sun's JDK license isn't
debian-compatible.
I've run all sorts of tools that require Java after d/ling the JDK from
Sun, though. I can't recall offhand what I did, but if nothing else you
can just modify the startup script to point to the right path.
--
monique
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