[CLUE-Tech] Java and Debian

[Roger Frank]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:52:27 -0600
"Timothy C. Klein" <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:

> My question is, do any fellow Debian users have a painless way of
> getting java to work in Debian?

I don't know about painless, but here's my setup:

in /etc/apt/sources.list
  deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody main non-free

apt-get update
apt-get install j2re1.4
apt-get install j2sdk1.3

check in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           45 Jun 23 21:07 javaplugin.so -> /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6/javaplugin.so
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Jun 23 20:22 javaplugin_oji.so -> /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so

check in /etc/alternatives:
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           57 Jun 23 21:03 javaplugin.so -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/netscape4/javaplugin.so
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           59 Jun 23 21:03 javaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so

So for development I am using 1.3 and the browser uses 1.4 but hey it works so I don't
try to get more creative.  Blackdown does have sdk1.4 available as a .tar.bz2 but I'm
waiting for the .deb on it.

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Roger Frank