On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:20:20AM +0000, Tim Diggins wrote: > Hi list - > > have recently started with debian etch (sort of know what I'm doing in BSD, > linux is a /slightly/ new adventure). > > I want to install jdk (and tomcat) by the simplest means, but DON'T want to > install x11 stuff. it depends on libx11-6. That is *not* X, just the libraries required to forward x11. So that you could forward java x11 stuff from this box to some other box that is actually running X. this all assumes you're trying to install sun-java6(5?)-jdk. > > the standard etch package for jdk1.5 seems to require x11. Is there a way > to install this without installing x? libx11-6 is required. UNless you could find some dummy package to pretend to provide it. > > any pointers (including pointers to generic apt no-x11 configuration that > I've missed - though I have search for it) very welcome there is now way I know of to explicitly exclude X (as in the whole gui experience) without paying attention to what gets dragged in by installing stuff. Unless, you want to get into apt-pinning, which is worth reading up on. If you could pin xserver-xorg* to a negative number, then they'll never be installed unless you explicitly ask for it. Not sure what happens in that case if you try to install something that depends on it, though... A
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