Java and the recommendations that have been made

[Eric SCHAEFFER]

You've got a debian package :

- you can uninstall it easily
- you can upgrade it easily
- it installs in the right directories
etc...
It is really integrated into the system.

On a RedHat, why use a RMP rather than a tar.gz or bin file ? ;)

And with j2se-package, it's so easy to convert the .bin into a debian
package that every debian user should do it.
What is the advantage of doing this over just installing the .bin?

 
>>> Eric SCHAEFFER <eschaeffer at emahoo.com> 09/30/04 09:13am >>>
 
 
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

Le jeudi 30 septembre 2004 à 11:08 +0100, Benjamin Edwards a écrit :
> What is the advantage of doing this over just installing the .bin?
>  
> >>> Eric SCHAEFFER <eschaeffer at emahoo.com> 09/30/04 09:13am >>>
>  
>  
> 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.
> 
>