Re: installing java (for limewire)

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch>]

Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> writes:

> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 20:15 +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>> Now I have tried again on the *sarge* box:

>> muz:/tmp# alien jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586.rpm
>> muz:/tmp# dpkg -i jre_1.5.0_10-1_i386.deb

> That's not really a good idea. Either try to find backports of Java to
> sarge, or use java-package to build your own version. It's not really
> that hard.

good advice!

I had tried java-package already, but did not succeed.
Now I have found a backport and the problem is solved :-)

Thanks a lot to everybody who helped,
Robert