Re: Help installing a JVM

[Thorsten Ebeling <t_ebeling@freenet.de>]

Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL wrote:

> Okay,
> 
> How do I get a JVM to install?  I have only found dummy packages, and when
> I downloaded and ran Sun's SDK, it didn't seem to install properly - or at
> least the Java apps don't see it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --JATF

I added this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian/ testing main
non-free
After this, I installed j2re1.4 (Blackdown Java 2 RE) and all the packages
it depends on with aptitude. Configuration was done by debian.