Re: problem installing eclipse

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

quirin (<linqs@gmx.de>) wrote:

> i can't apt-get eclipse :(
> 
> 
> output:
> 
> bigfatmama:/home/quirin# apt-get install eclipse-platform
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
> that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   eclipse-platform: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
>                              j2re1.3 but it is not installable or
>                              java2-runtime but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> 
> any1 got an idea?

Install a java runtime environment. I think there is no packages version
in Debian, but you can get the rpm from Sun and convert it using alien.
Or you use j2se-package, which may produce better results than alien:

<http://z42.de/debian/>

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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