Java in Ubuntu !!!

[david]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 16:27 +1000, Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> 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.
> 
Please explain. I wasn't aware this was a bad method.

nux