[vox-tech] Installing Java

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Nick Schmalenberger (nschmalenberger at fastmail.fm):

> If you haven't already gotten the Blackdown thing from where Rick Moen
> said, you could try getting the RPM of JDK from Sun and converting it to
> deb with alien, then installing it. It worked nicely for me and I now
> have v1.5 , although you may prefer the Blackdown one anyway because it
> is apparently more free and certainly easier to install and maintain
> with apt.

Just to clarify:  Since Blackdown's versions are an authorised port of 
Sun's software, they're under the same proprietary licence.

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