On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 22:23 -0800, briand@aracnet.com wrote: > Hi all, > > If I need j2se installed on Debian, what's my best option ? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't j2se pretty old? FWIW, here is what I do to get "java" working: 1 echo "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list 2 sudo aptitude update 3 sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk 1 needs to be done as root 1 Sun's java is in non-free 3 in aptitude you can search for Sun's java with /^sun-java HTH, -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814 2CCE 2383 2991 83FF C899 07E2 BFA8 42A0 0942 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
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