operator <operator1000@gmail.com> writes: > /What was Your solution? I want to know. sorry, if that was not clear enough from context: I searched for a backport of sun java for Sarge (as the program my children want to run was not happy with the free alternatives) and installed that with dpkg: dpkg -i sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-10-1~bpo.1_i386.deb Depending the software already installed you might need to do (as root) update-alternatives --config java Robert