Re: Sun JRE, JSDK and J2EE on debian

[Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Thomas Weinbrenner wrote:
> prabusubroto@arcor.de wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to have JRE and SDK on my debian because my boss push me to use
>>Sun Java. I downloaded the JRE, converted it to deb package with alien like
>>this:
>> alien -d -i ./j2re-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.rpm
>>
>>it succeeded.
> 
> 
> There is a better way to create java packages than alien. Use the "java-package"
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/java-package
> 
> Just download the self-extracting file from Sun and use:
> 
>  make-jpkg j2re-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.bin
> 

And here's some step by step instructions:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142

Andro

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science