Andreas Janssen said:
> You should go to <http://z42.de/debian/>. Get j2se-package, convert your
> JRE to a deb, download the matching *debian-deb for your Java version,
> and install both the downloaded package and the converted JRE. The
> package management will take care of the symlinks in /etc/alternatives
> and even install symlinks to make the Java plugin work with Mozilla,
> Netscape and Firefox. You should probably deinstall the gjc packages
> first.
Bah. You can't be serious. Why would anyone be expected to go through this
procedure just to install Java? Why not just unpack the sun.com archive in
/usr/local/ and export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java and
PATH=$PATH:${JAVA_HOME}/bin?
Mike
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