Java in Ubuntu !!!

david nux at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Aug 29 06:52:41 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 07:43 +0100, david wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Partly because the instructions for this method came from the Ubuntu
site and partly because they work and partly because I've not noticed
anything being wrecked afterwards.

nux





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