Azureus and Java Installs
ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
zamb at saudi.net.sa
Mon Oct 3 23:31:37 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:45 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> Hi all, I am trying to install Azureus, in Hoary, from synaptic and it
> tells me that I cant cause
> azureus:
> Depends: sun-j2sdk1.5 but it is not installable or
> java2-runtime but it is not installable
>
> Is there a package in synaptic that will install these or do I have to
> do it from the java site? If I have to install it manually what is the
> easiest way to go about that so that I make sure that the necs. files
> are in the right place etc. Thanks,
> Charles
>
>
For legal reasons Ubuntu can't ship Sun's Java implementation. Because
of that you need to _build_ the Java package yourself.
Just follow the instructions in this URL (go the the "Java" section):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
and you should be okay (it worked for me on Hoary).
Ziyad.
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