On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:00:33PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. While I'm not the biggest Java fan at the moment, I was > curious about Java 1.2. I realize I can grab it from blackdown, but I noticed > that it's not available as a deb package. It is simply too unstable for > inclusion, or is there another reason for this?
Blackdown provides debs, and they're pretty stable. However, They are in non-free and not available from the normal debian mirrors. Here are some instructions pulled out of the java mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-java-0010/msg00031.html