Joe Riel wrote: > Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: > > 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? There are many different ways to do this and everyone has their own (sometimes strong) opinions about how it should be done. When I first suggested that link I was thinking it was just one or two packages. But looking now I see four. sun-java5-bin sun-java5-fonts sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin And possibly more that I missed. So that isn't going to be as easy to do one at a time. One Option: Temporarily change your references from squeeze or sid in /etc/apt/sources.list to "lenny". Run 'apt-get update', and then 'apt-get update install sun-java5-jre' and install. Then restore your previous /etc/apt/sources.list file and apt-get update again to clean up. Because sun-java5-jre requires other components this might be the best easiest way. In this case much easier than individually downloading each package manually. Going to an older repository for packages from a newer system tends to have fewer traps than being on an older system and going to a newer repository for packages so this is definitely the route I would take. Bob
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