[vox-tech] Installing Java

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Wed Dec 29 13:35:09 PST 2004


Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:11:55PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> 
>>>On Debian, the best way to install Java is to download the binary
>>>installer and then use make-jpkg from java-package to create .debs of
>>>Java that do the right thing.
>>
>>Ken, I'm running debian.  I don't see a "java-package" when I do a:
>>apt-cache search java.  Am I misunderstanding you?
> 
> 
> Looks like it's only in unstable.

I just use the installer from sun then and install in /usr/local like I had

Jay



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