Java in Ubuntu !!!

Michael R Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Mon Aug 29 06:28:15 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 07:03 +0000, david wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:06:05 +0200
> Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> 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.

Even easier:

1) Add the hoary-extras repository
2) apt-get install sun-j2re1.5

> regards
> 
> nux
> 
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Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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