John W. Foster wrote:
On Saturday 11 August 2007 00:09, Marc Shapiro wrote:I just realized that java is no longer functioning on my up-to-date Etch system. I had installed Sun Java using java-package and it had been working at the time. I don't run java all that much, so I don't know just when it stopped working, but it is not working now. I have used the test on Sun's site and it does not find my installation. JAVA_HOME had been set to /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun. When Sun's own site could not find my installation I decided that it was time to uninstall and reinstall fresh. I ran: aptitude remove sun_j2sdk1.5 aptitude suggested installing what appears to be Debian java packages to replace the Sun package. I agreed and the installation seemed to go smoothly, but I am still unable to run java packages, from Sun's site, or others. Do I need a plugin of some sort? When I tried to install sun-java5-plugin aptitude wanted to install Iceweasle. Since I am happily running Firefox 2.0 I do not want to install Iceweasle. How do I get around this? Can someone tell me what I might be missing, or point me in the right direction? -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42@yahoo.com-----------------------try removing any debian packages with 'gcj' as part of the name for examplegcj; or any app named something-gcj. I ahve run into some conflicts with that recently. If that fixes the problem then there is most likely a bug in gcj, which I have not reported, since I was not certain it existed.
I don't have any 'gcj' packages installed. I don't want to install Iceweasle. I am happy with my upstream Firefox.I Think that I have a partial answer to the problem, but I don't seem to be able to implement it -- There was no java plugin in my .mozilla/plugins directory. I made a link to the plugin in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.10/jre/plugins but that made no difference. I then tried linking to the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox. This time, the check for java on Sun's site found my installation, but said that I don't have the correct version of java installed, so I downloaded the new .bin file and tried to use make-jpkg on it, but I got the following message:
mns@xander:~$ make-jpkg jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.DzAQSZ8011Loading plugins: blackdown-j2re.sh blackdown-j2sdk.sh common.sh ibm-j2re.sh ibm-j2sdk.sh j2re.sh j2sdk-doc.sh j2sdk.sh j2se.sh sun-j2re.sh sun-j2sdk-doc.sh sun-j2sdk.sh
Detected Debian build architecture: i386 Detected Debian GNU type: i486-linux-gnu No matching plugin was found. Removing temporary directory: doneWhat do I need to do to make a debian package that I can install so that I can remove the unworking packages without uninstalling all of Debian's OO.org which insists on having java installed?
-- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42@yahoo.com