>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Simone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tony> Quick summary: the sun-jdk1.4-installer package requires you
Tony> to download the Sun linux j2sdk archive (since Sun requires
Tony> you to do so and it's hard to automate around that), and it
Tony> provides a "build-sun-jdk14" script that does the rest for
Tony> you. It unpacks the archive, moves some files around, then
Tony> rolls it into a .deb and even prompts you to install it,
Tony> then cleans up after itself. The j2sdk1.4 package it
Tony> creates provides java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime, and
Tony> java2-compiler, which should satify the depends of several
Tony> other (potential) packages.
Have you looked at the .debs on the blackdown mirrors? They have done
this for quite some time. Add
deb http://mirror.of.blackdown.org/pub/java/debian unstable main non-free
to you /etc/apt/sources.list and see
<URL:http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html> for a lis of
valid mirrors.
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Stephen (jdk & j2se maintainer)
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