On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Qua, 2004-04-21 Ã s 14:44, Derek Broughton escreveu: > > On April 21, 2004 01:33 pm, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > > > > > Bad idea. Go for the original deb packages, find them at > > > http://apt-get.org./. > > > > Which seems like a worse idea. I can only see Blackdown in there, which has > > never been close enough to Sun Java to be usable for me. Converting Sun's > > rpm works for me. > > It works for me, without having to subvert the package management. > > But perhaps it is my usage which is quite simple. > > And last time I checked there was stuff other than Blackdown at > apt-get.
Thanx both for your suggestions. Leandro, exactly where do you get your j2re? j2re1.3 Depends j2se-common (>1) I have in my sources.list: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free But there is no j2se .deb package there. When browsing through the site I do see j2se tar files, but no .deb - so apt can never be satisfied to install j2re1.3 I found another site (http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/) which has a newer j2re1.4 as well as a j2se .deb . However that depends on the latest version of libstdc++5 and lots of things that go with it. I am reluctant to upgrade the core stuff to a more unstable version. I am surprised all that is required - why do we need C++ to run Java? esp. since the previous version 1.3 didn't. Anyway, where can I get a complete consistent set of .deb packages for Java? -- #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&([EMAIL PROTECTED]@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)[EMAIL PROTECTED]@) Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters
