Java and the recommendations that have been made

[Eric SCHAEFFER]

Le jeudi 30 septembre 2004 à 03:59 -0400, list a écrit :
> I have tried a few different things to get java going--but have no luck  
> yet.
> 
> I tried adding the sources as suggested here  
> (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-16.3469703387),  
> and when I try to use synaptic I get the following errror:
> 
> sun-j2sdk1.4debian:
> Depends: sun-j2sdk1.4 but it is not installable

The http://z42.de/debian/ site provides you a package that "transform"
Sun JRE/JDK bin files into a debian package. 
You need to download the bin file from Sun's site, install the z42
package (j2se-package), create a deb from bin file (see man pages,
really easy) and then install the newly created deb (depends on
java-common only, I think).
You can then install the debian extras package from z42 (ex:
sun-j2sdk1.4debian) if you want.

Eric

> I also tried apt-get with these results:
> 
> dim:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05# apt-get install sun-j2re1.4debian
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    sun-j2re1.4debian: Depends: sun-j2re1.4 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> 
> 
> Is there any way to just use the .bin file from java.com? Since there is  
> no root user, it doesn't seem to want to install to all the different  
> directories... I could try hand placing all the files, but anytime I  
> wanted to update, this would be a major hassle. I know that java is  
> proprietary, but it would be great if there were an easier way to get it  
> running.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Dean
>