[vox-tech] Installing Java

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Thu Dec 30 04:43:57 PST 2004


Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ken Bloom (kabloom at ucdavis.edu):
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> For Java2 v. 1.5.  If you're content with 1.4 for now, try using this as
> an apt source:
> 
> # Sun Java J2r1.4
> deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody non-free
> 


Looks like they moved it to:

deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free

and since I'm on sarge, I'll use that.

Thanks
Jay


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