here's how I installed Sun's Java, comments are welcome
Recently I installed Sun's Java j2sdk-1.4.2 on my Sarge and Sid sytems.
I was not sure if a Debian package exists, and was not clear about
Blackdown's Java (I had always used Sun's Java), so I just downloaded
and installed the SDK in /usr/local. The steps I followed are given
below. But the thing that is bothering a wee bit is that now I have this
package that is not a deb package and it might eventually turn out to be
a headache to maintain it; I am not sure, but just a thought. Comments
are welcome.
Here are the steps I followed to install the SDK:
1) downloaded the j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin (the SDK) from Sun's
java page.
2) became root.
3) Moved the downloaded file to /usr/local/java (after making java in
/usr/local)
4) made the bin file executable
5) executed teh bin file, answered yes, and the extracted dir
j2sdk1.4.2_04 was
formed in /usr/local/java
6) made sym link named 'jdk' to this newly created dir:
/usr/local# ln -s java/j2sdk1.4.2_04 jdk
Now /usr/local/jdk points to the java dir. Just change the link to a new
dir if
you want to install a new java distribution.
7) put these two lines in /etc/profile:
#added by HS, 13May2004, to include j2sdk
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk/bin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk
8) created link for mozilla in /usr/lib/mozilla:
ln -s /usr/local/jdk/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
Java runs fine in Mozilla.
->HS
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