java

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow
me to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of
(at least)

default-jre
gcj-4.4-jre
gcj-jre
icedtea-6-jre-cacao
openoffice.org (includes its own jre, apparently)
openjdk-6-jre (required by Azureus/Vuze; it does not seem to
accept other Javas)
sun-java5-jre
sun-java6-jre

Today I did another attempt: rigorously dpkg --purge'd any trace
of any other jre than openjdk-6-jre. It does not have a mozilla
plugin, but "suggests" installing icedtea6-plugin and
sun-java6-fonts. But then sun-java6-fonts wants to install
sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-jre, and "suggests" sun-java6-plugin
and ia32-sun-java6-plugin. And the icedtea6-plugin does not work...

This is dependency hell. Does anybody know of a decent tutorial
for setting up jre, any jre, on Debian? With only one boundary
condition: it should work. I haven't been able to see applets
working for about half a year now.

Regards, Jan