[mdlug] what am I missing about debian and java?

[Clinton V. Weiss]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
>  I was under the impression that Ubuntu shipped with Sun's Java, dunno
>  about Debian. Either way it's pretty easy to install Java in any distro.

It doesn't ship with Java installed because the user has to agree to
sun EULA first.  It is easy, however, to install from the command line
or their GUI implementation of apt-get.  I'm surprised that Kubuntu
didn't offer to install it for you when you visited a web page with
Java, I know Ubuntu will.

To install Sun's Java 6 on (most) Debian distros:
# apt-get install sun-java6-jre

As already mentioned, you may have to soft link the browser plugin.

To search for sun java packages:
# apt-cache search sun-java
sun-java5-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
(architecture dependent files)
sun-java5-demo - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos and examples
sun-java5-doc - Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer
sun-java5-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
sun-java5-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
sun-java5-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
(architecture independent files)
sun-java5-source - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 source files
sun-java6-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture
dependent files)
sun-java6-demo - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 demos and examples
sun-java6-doc - Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer
sun-java6-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
sun-java6-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture
independent files)
sun-java6-source - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 source files

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Clinton V. Weiss
cvweiss at gmail.com