John W. Foster wrote:
On Saturday 11 August 2007 00:09, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I just realized that java is no longer functioning on my up-to-date Etch
system. I had installed Sun Java using java-package and it had been
working at the time. I don't run java all that much, so I don't know
just when it stopped working, but it is not working now. I have used
the test on Sun's site and it does not find my installation. JAVA_HOME
had been set to /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun. When Sun's own site could not
find my installation I decided that it was time to uninstall and
reinstall fresh. I ran:
aptitude remove sun_j2sdk1.5
aptitude suggested installing what appears to be Debian java packages to
replace the Sun package. I agreed and the installation seemed to go
smoothly, but I am still unable to run java packages, from Sun's site,
or others. Do I need a plugin of some sort? When I tried to install
sun-java5-plugin aptitude wanted to install Iceweasle. Since I am
happily running Firefox 2.0 I do not want to install Iceweasle. How do
I get around this?
Can someone tell me what I might be missing, or point me in the right
direction?
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Marc Shapiro
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try removing any debian packages with 'gcj' as part of the name for
examplegcj; or any app named something-gcj. I ahve run into some conflicts
with that recently. If that fixes the problem then there is most likely a bug
in gcj, which I have not reported, since I was not certain it existed.
I don't have any 'gcj' packages installed.
I don't want to install Iceweasle. I am happy with my upstream Firefox.
I Think that I have a partial answer to the problem, but I don't seem to
be able to implement it -- There was no java plugin in my
.mozilla/plugins directory. I made a link to the plugin in
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.10/jre/plugins but that made no
difference. I then tried linking to the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox.
This time, the check for java on Sun's site found my installation, but
said that I don't have the correct version of java installed, so I
downloaded the new .bin file and tried to use make-jpkg on it, but I got
the following message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ make-jpkg jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.DzAQSZ8011
Loading plugins: blackdown-j2re.sh blackdown-j2sdk.sh common.sh
ibm-j2re.sh ibm-j2sdk.sh j2re.sh j2sdk-doc.sh j2sdk.sh j2se.sh
sun-j2re.sh sun-j2sdk-doc.sh sun-j2sdk.sh
Detected Debian build architecture: i386
Detected Debian GNU type: i486-linux-gnu
No matching plugin was found.
Removing temporary directory: done
What do I need to do to make a debian package that I can install so that
I can remove the unworking packages without uninstalling all of Debian's
OO.org which insists on having java installed?
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Marc Shapiro
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