[Sorry if this is a duplicate - I'm resending it, my original reply seems to have been eaten by net ghosts.]
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go > with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and > install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that > Java VM is already installed? The easiest way may be to install one of the dummy packages: shiznit[2]% apt-cache search java|grep dummy java-compiler-dummy - Dummy Java compiler java-virtual-machine-dummy - Dummy Java virtual machine These packages don't install any new software, they just satisfy dependencies. They were made for exactly the situation you are facing. Try 'apt-get install java-virtual-machine-dummy'. I expect this will sate jike's longing for a JVM on your system. Let us know how it works - Aaron
