Java in Ubuntu !!!

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Wed Aug 31 19:51:28 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 07:50 +0100, paul cooke wrote:
> On Monday 29 August 2005 03:06, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > I just happened to be needing to test a program I have been pointed to.
> > I go to the project's website and oh horror, the program is implemented
> > as a java "JAR" file, no Java on Ubuntu, not free, and a pain to
> > install, it will never work I give up right now.
> > It says that in order to run the program you need to type at the command
> > line : "java -jar <prog-name> <options...>
> >
> > I did that just for the sake of it, and OH-MY-GOD-IT-WORKED !!! :-OOOO
> >
> > I nearly fell off my chair !
> > I couldn't believe it, Ubuntu now has JAVA !
> 
> NO IT DOESN'T... at some point in the past, you installed it... you just 
> forgot about it, that's all
> 
> Ubuntu will never have Java out of the box unless Sun get their act together 
> and relax the license conditions about redistribution.
> 

apt-cache show gcj

-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking
his self-interest gives you more leverage. -- Lazarus Long
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