Re: Installing Java on Lenny

[Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi>]

2010/7/7 Gorka <gorkalinux@yahoo.es>:
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>
> Hi linux friends. I've got Debian Lenny 5.0.5.
>
> I'm trying to install mirth, whose requires Java 1.5 or 1.6.
>
> The fact is that Lenny had Java somehow on it before installing it manually,
> because it says:
> # java -version
> java version "1.5.0"
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.3.2
>
> Anyway it doesn't let me install mirth, printing this error:
> #./mirth-1.8.2.4472.1351-linux-installer.bin
> Error: The installer could not find a valid Java(tm) on this machine.
> Supported versions:
> Vendor : Sun  min. 1.5 max. any
>
> Why?
>
> I've installed every package on Debian Volatile relative to sun-java-1.5
> from the following repositories ...
> #deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> #deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> ... but I'm getting the same error.
>
> But the most annoying thing is that if I install packages relating to
> sun-java-1.6 me I'm getting the same error, the Sun site says I'm on 1.6 but
> 'java -version' command says I'm on 1.5.0 version.
>
> I've also tried to install jre-6u20-linux-i586.bin (that's supposed to be in
> 1.6 version) downloaded directly from Sun site, instead of using the Debian
> packages. Unsuccessfully.

http://www.rsreese.com/2009/05/installing-sun-java-on-debian-lenny/

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Eero