Seems like batik 1.8 does not work as expected: [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.5 [javac] /home/mathieu/debian/java/fop/fop-2.0/src/java/org/apache/fop/svg/AbstractFOPBridgeContext.java:38: error: cannot access CSSContext [javac] public abstract class AbstractFOPBridgeContext extends BridgeContext { [javac] ^ [javac] class file for org.apache.batik.css.engine.CSSContext not found [javac] /home/mathieu/debian/java/fop/fop-2.0/src/java/org/apache/fop/svg/AbstractFOPImageElementBridge.java:33: error: package org.apache.batik.util does not exist [javac] import org.apache.batik.util.ParsedURL; [javac] ^ [javac] /home/mathieu/debian/java/fop/fop-2.0/src/java/org/apache/fop/svg/AbstractFOPImageElementBridge.java:54: error: cannot access SVGContext [javac] public abstract class AbstractFOPImageElementBridge extends SVGImageElementBridge { [javac] ^ [javac] class file for org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGContext not found [javac] /home/mathieu/debian/java/fop/fop-2.0/src/java/org/apache/fop/afp/svg/AFPImageElementBridge.java:30: error: cannot access SVGConstants
With: $ apt-cache policy libbatik-java Installed: 1.8-2 Candidate: 1.8-2 Version table: *** 1.8-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.7+dfsg-5 0 700 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages