On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 22:23 -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Hi all, > >=20 > > If I need j2se installed on Debian, what's my best option ? > > Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't j2se pretty old? >
Yes after doing some more research I figured it out it's _really_ old. > FWIW, here is what I do to get "java" working: > > 1 echo "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib > non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list > 2 sudo aptitude update > 3 sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk > > 1 needs to be done as root > 1 Sun's java is in non-free > 3 in aptitude you can search for Sun's java with /^sun-java > > HTH, Strange, I thought that java had been unequivocally released as free software at some point. Thanks very much. I'll give it a try. My guess is that if the web page was so old that it's mentioning j2se, it's probably not going to work. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100217200958.4f7c0...@windy.deldotd.com
