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Re: Mozilla (sid) installation needs jdk118



On Friday 24 December 2004 18:41, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:39:41PM -0800, cfk wrote:
> > 	I'm trying to get jdk downloaded to satisfy a couple of apt-get demands
> > with sid. I keep getting the message with mozilla (and a couple of other
> > java dependent programs) pointing me at www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux to
> > obtain the file "ibm-jdk-l118-linux-x86.tgz" and it into /tmp to continue
> > with an installation.
>
> Do you really want the ibm jdk?  The blackdown java 2 sdk is more likely
> to be what you need.
>
> Put this in your sources.list and install j2sdk1.4
>
>   deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/java-linux/debian unstable non-free
>
> There are several alternatives for java on linux, this is the one I use.
> Google debian java faq if you want more info.

Dear Sam:
	
	Thank you for your advice. Basically, I am spelunking my way around debian 
and trying out sid seemed interesting for a while on one of my spare 
computers. I can always just start over, thats not a problem, but this is an 
interesting puzzle.

	Here is my new sources.list which contains four lines at this time.

	deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository apt-build main
	deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
	deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
	deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/java-linux/debian unstable non-free

When I then do an 'apt-get install java-common', I get back to the same 
installer message demanding the ibm-jdk-l118-linux-x86.tgz file.

I wonder if this could be a sid issue and I wonder if you or someone else 
could comment further?

Charles



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