Alex Malinovich wrote:
This was actually just discussed about a week ago on this list. The best solution (IMO) is to build a deb package of Sun's actual distribution and go from there. There's a pretty complete writeup of the process available at http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php
The short version is basically:
1) Download the latest JRE from java.sun.com 2) Install java-package and fakeroot (apt-get install java-package fakeroot) 3) Build a deb of the JRE using 'fakeroot make-jpkg <downloaded filename>' 4) Install the newly created .deb using 'dpkg -i <deb filename>' 5) Install the debian-specific java bits 'apt-get install sun-j2re<your version>debian'
By far the most time-consuming part of the process is going to be downloading the JRE and then waiting for the .deb to build. As long as you're not using dialup you should be able to have everything done in well under 30 mins.
This is by far the winning solution!!!
Thanks very much.
I am pretty sure this was discussed recently but I didn't save any threads. I ran into some disk space problems. Sorry for not searching the mailing lists, but I do appreciate your help.
This was very simple.
I also had to install java-common and sun-j2re1.4debian before it would run without warnings.
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