Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #288
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:29:01 +0000 (UTC)
Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 22:23 -0800, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >=20
> > If I need j2se installed on Debian, what's my best option ?
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't j2se pretty old?
>
Yes after doing some more research I figured it out it's _really_
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,
Strange, I thought that java had been unequivocally released as free
software at some point.
Thanks very much. I'll give it a try. My guess is that if the web
page was so old that it's mentioning j2se, it's probably not going to
work.
Brian
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