Installing Java - the Debian way

Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:33:14 +0530

Newsgroups	gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi.devel,gmane.org.user-groups.java.delhi
Organization	Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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[x-posted]

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DebianJava.html

Installing most things on Debian is sinfully easy: apt-get install 
package-name. Sadly Java is an exception since it's not in the basic debian 
system. I recently downloaded and installed java 1.5 or 5, or whatever 
they're calling it these days on my Debian Sid desktop. In brief the 
procedure is.

# apt-get install mpkg-j2se fakeroot
download the sun jdk from java.sun.com
$ fakeroot /usr/bin/mpkg-j2se j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin
# dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0_i386.deb
# apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.5debian
# update-alternatives --config java

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