Thanks! It works beautifully! :) So much easier than the other approach... Pontus
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 21.50, dman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:24:52PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I'm on Woody, kernel 2.4.17 and have been trying to install the Java2 > | Runtime v1.3.1 from Sun without any luck... > | I've followed their instructions; downloaded the autoextracting file and > | unpacked it in /usr/java as they sugges > > t. It doesen't report any problems, > > | but will not work either... Is this the only, or is there other > | java-runtimes available for Debian? How can I troubleshoot? > > My opinion is to forget those commercially distributed tarballs since > they are usually more complicated and you have no assurance that it > will work on _your_ system. Instead, for java, go to blackdown.org > and add one of their mirrors to your apt sources. The package is > 'j2re1.3' or 'j2sdk1.3' depending on whether you want just the runtime > or the whole development bundle. > > -D
