On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:46:01AM +0300, Alan KF LAU wrote: > Please bear with me with this simple question which shouldn't be raised in an > expert mailing list. I'd appreciate if you'd give me just a pointer. > > I have successfully installed jdk1.1, ibmjdk1.1.8. simply because they've > .deb file. Recently I'm asked to upgrade to jdk1.3. > > How may I install the jdk1.3 in Debian without deb packages? Is there any > symbolic links and library I should place in right place so that dependencies > like cocoon, tomcat and gnujsp, etc. could recognize it by default? >
Starting today, I would install from the blackdown debs available at www.blackdown.org. But I already installed my system a little differently. First, I installed Sun's 1.3 jdk. Then I installed java-compiler-dummy and java-virtual-machine-dummy from the debs. Finally, I set the symlinks in /etc/alternatives to point to /usr/local/jdk1.3/bin/java and /usr/local/jdk1.3/bin/javac as appropriate.
