Java in Ubuntu !!!

Peter Lieverdink ubuntu at cafuego.net
Mon Aug 29 06:27:57 UTC 2005


david wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:06:05 +0200
> Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> 
[snip]
>>
>>Wow, at this pace, we will soon have a smooth multimedia experience as
>>well ! ;-) 
>>Breezy+1 will probably be a hell of an Ubuntu, I am so looking forward
>>to it already :o)
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Yes, I thought installing Java on Ubuntu was hard.
> It isn't.
> Go get the self extracting bin file (current version is 1.5.0_04) and
> run it. Copy the resulting folder to /usr/lib.
> Symlink /usr/lib/jre1.5.0_04/bin/java to /usr/bin and the
> libjavaplugin_oji.so to firefox's plugins folder and that's it, all
> done.
> 
> regards
> 
> nux

Before anyone follows that advice and wrecks the package system, I'd
like to point out the 'java-package' package, which does this in a safe
manner and generates a .deb you can install.

- P.




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