Re: Java

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

housetier wrote:

> > I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages.
> > Too bad they don't have enough sense to put deb's out there.
> >
> > How do I get java working?
> >    
>
> in sid is a package called "java-package" that will make a .deb out of
> sun's .bin. I have used it and got java 1.5 working (in firefox as
> well).
>
>
>  
The following link is a very good step-by-step tutorial for installing 
Java.  It is predicated upon having sarge installed though.   I suppose 
you could do it using woody, but you may have to upgrade some packages 
to do so.   I've never tried it on woody. 

http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian