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Re: problem installing eclipse



Incoming from Andreas Janssen:
> 
> s. keeling (<keeling@spots.ab.ca>) wrote:
> 
> > Incoming from Andreas Janssen:
> >> 
> >> quirin (<linqs@gmx.de>) wrote:
> >> 
> >> > i can't apt-get eclipse :(
> >> 
> >> Install a java runtime environment. I think there is no packages
> >> version in Debian
>            ^^^^^^^^^

Hmm ...  Yes, there is "officially sanctioned debian.org", but
_Debian_ is bigger than debian.org, just as Linux is bigger than
Linus.

> These packages are not part of Debian. They were built for Debian, but
> by someone else.

Is Debian some monolithic, corporate entity, or is it a community?  Or
both, depending on what you're talking about at the moment?  True, if
he only wants official "Debian stable/testing/unstable", you're
correct.


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