Java applications

[Nuno Ferreira]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:57 +0100, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> there is no standard package to install due to the licence. It is very
> simple to make one though - just follow the instructions heer:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-16.3469703387/view?searchterm=java
> 
I know there aren't, if you read my first email you will see that I even
said that the packages I'm referring to are are packages like Tomacat
and Ant that depend on the SDK to build but are themselves free.

> the pre-pacaged packages that are mentinoed are no logner available,
> so its a case of downloading the SDK and using teh Java On Debian
> guide to install it. The advantage of this is that you can get teh 1.5
> SDK installed.

I know, I have the SDK installed. By the way, there is a problem with
this. To install sun sdk, I need to use java-package and
sun-j2sdk1.4debian from the debian repository. Couldn't this packages be
added to ubuntu universe?
 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:43:52 +0100, Nuno Ferreira
> <nuno.ferreira at graycell.biz> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 19:55 +0100, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I started using ubuntu and the main thing I miss are java related
> > > packages. I saw the build logs from tomcat (forgot the URL, somewhere at
> > > canonical) and it's missing because there is no (Sun ?) SDK in the
> > > archive, so the packages don't build.
> > > Do you have a plan to add this kind of packages (that depends on
> > > non-free software but are free, I think that's the definition of contrib
> > > on debian) to universe ?
> > 
> > So, no answer.
> > Let's try again. Does anyone know if there is a plan in place to allow
> > such packages to be build for Ubuntu?
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Nuno Ferreira