Re: Java webstart in amd64

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

Heelo, Peter.

IBM's JDK for linux amd64 contains java webstart.
Another option is to install ia32 compatiblity package and to use Sun's
java for i586.

Regards
Georgi

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> although I have seen some pages with advice on how to get java working
> in amd64 / testing, I am still a bit confused. Is the best way to go a
> chroot environment? In particular, I have not had great experiences with
> gcjava and prefer the sun version of java, but no javaws is available at
> present for amd64. DOes anyone know of a tutorial on how to get things
> rolling?
> 
> thanks :_} Peter
> 
>