Thanks for the replies, Jordi and Jochen. I was confused with the jargon around JRE, JDK, and J2SE. But its cleared out now and I have Java running on my Debian Etch machine! Girish. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > A couple of stupid questions for the Java experts on this list. I am > interested in setting up Java on Debian but apologies if this is OT. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com