Re: java 5 in squeeze
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:12:22 -0700
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Joe Riel wrote:
> > How can I install sun java 1.5 in squeeze?
> > It isn't part of the release.
>
> Java 1.6 is included in the non-free section.
>
> apt-get install sun-java6-jre
>
> Useful information about this can be found on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Sun
>
> If you absolutely need Java 1.5 then you will need to install the
> older version from the Lenny non-free archive.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/sun-java5-jre
Right. How would I do that? My knowledge of debian's package manager
is minimal. I'm guessing that I'm not supposed to modify sources.list,
but rather do something else. Maybe just download the deb and
install it with dpkg? Is there a proper way to do this?
--
Joe Riel
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